GovWell
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
About this role
GovWell seeks a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to work directly with complex municipal customers, resolving technical deployment challenges and translating enterprise needs into scalable product capabilities. You'll operate at the intersection of engineering, sales, and customer success, ensuring enterprise growth strengthens the core platform while based in NYC with travel to key clients.
What you'll do
- Diagnose and resolve technical blockers during high-stakes enterprise deployments with municipalities
- Partner with Sales and Deployment teams on late-stage deals, providing technical feasibility assessment
- Convert bespoke customer requirements into scalable, reusable product abstractions
- Build targeted code or configuration solutions while avoiding long-term technical fragmentation
- Travel to municipalities to understand constraints firsthand and accelerate execution
- Escalate durable product opportunities to core teams and influence roadmap decisions
What they're looking for
- Full-stack or forward-deployed SaaS engineering (5+ years)
- TypeScript/Node.js or similar backend languages
- Customer-facing deployments and integration experience
- Product judgment and technical decision-making
- Executive communication and stakeholder management
- Systems thinking for converting patterns into reusable solutions
- Rapid execution and startup mentality
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage revenue-sensitive problems
Benefits
- Work on mission-critical government systems affecting millions of Americans
- Join a hyper-growth startup (4X ARR growth) with product-market fit
- High ownership and autonomy with close collaboration with founders
- Based in NYC with 3+ days in-office requirement
- Impact on real-world government modernization and public services
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GovWell
GovWell builds an AI-powered operating system that modernizes government services and streamlines public agency operations through generative AI-powered workflow automation. The company is hiring data engineers, full-stack engineers, AI product engineers, deployment engineers, and forward-deployed engineers to handle data migrations, platform development, enterprise customer deployments, and complex government modernization projects.
View all jobs at GovWellLikely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you deployed a complex enterprise feature or integration to production. What blockers did you encounter, and how did you balance the customer's needs with platform stability?
- Describe your experience with customer-facing technical work. How do you maintain credibility with non-technical stakeholders while setting realistic expectations?