# Software Engineer, Deployment

**Company:** [GovWell](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/govwell)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, Redwoodjs, AWS, OpenAI API
**Posted:** 2026-02-19

> Builds repeatable deployment frameworks, tooling, and abstractions to accelerate enterprise customer launches for a govtech SaaS platform. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience in production SaaS, strong systems thinking, and customer-facing collaboration skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement repeatable deployment frameworks that standardize how GovWell launches enterprise customers.
- Partner with customer-facing teams to unblock complex launches and convert one-off solutions into reusable systems.
- Reduce time from signed contract to production go-live through automation, guardrails, and improved workflows.
- Productize common enterprise requirements into configurable systems rather than bespoke implementations.
- Define deployment standards and best practices to make launches safer and more predictable over time.
- Build internal tooling that reduces manual effort and operational overhead for teams supporting live customers.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in a production SaaS environment.
- Strong systems thinker who can translate ambiguous real-world requirements into scalable technical abstractions.
- Comfortable working directly with customers or client-facing teams on technical deployments, including explaining tradeoffs and gathering requirements.
- Strong coding ability with experience shipping production systems.
- High-ownership operator who prefers building durable systems over one-off fixes.
- Clear written communicator who documents patterns, standards, and technical decisions effectively.
- Advanced user of modern AI tools to accelerate debugging, prototyping, and execution.

## Tech Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- RedwoodJS
- AWS
- OpenAI API

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Equity / stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program.
- Flexible PTO.

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