Founding Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

GovWell is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to build and operate core backend platform systems that enable rapid, safe deployment at scale. You'll own CI/CD, observability, incident response, and security infrastructure while writing production code, directly impacting developer velocity and system reliability for mission-critical government services.

What you'll do

• Own deployment and reliability platform to ensure production safety and resilience as the company scales
• Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed and safety across teams
• Establish observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure
• Lead incident response practices including playbooks, escalation paths, and postmortems
• Own platform-level security and compliance foundations including SOC 2 readiness
• Build internal tooling to reduce infrastructure overhead for product engineers

What they're looking for

• Backend or infrastructure engineering with 5+ years production SaaS experience
• Distributed systems and reliability engineering expertise
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Node.js/TypeScript or similar strong coding ability
• Observability and monitoring systems design
• Modern AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-based workflows)
• Incident response and postmortem leadership
• Security and compliance foundations

Benefits

• Mission-driven work improving government services for millions of Americans
• Founding engineer role with significant ownership and long-term impact
• Hyper-growth startup with 4X ARR growth and product-market fit
• Close collaboration with founders and CTO
• Hybrid work model with 3+ days per week in NYC office
• $35M funding from tier-one investors (Insight Partners, Work-Bench, Bienville Capital)