Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Who We Are

GovOS is a leading provider of transaction and compliance software for state and local governments to streamline property, licensing, and tax interactions with businesses and citizens. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, GovOS serves more than 800 government agencies across the United States. With the company’s secure suite of cloud-based solutions, governments can maximize revenue, increase compliance, reduce costs, and meet constituent demand for modern, self-service transaction and payment services.

Across the country, local governments are working hard to improve the lives of their citizens, as well as their own employees. We are 100% invested in providing governments with innovative solutions and industry-leading services that will help them deliver impactful change in their communities. Government agencies have been winning awards with us for almost 20 years now. We have the highest customer retention rates in our industry because no one works harder than we do to ensure our customers’ success.

Our Mission Statement

To enable state and local governments to modernize their citizens and business transactions through innovative SaaS solutions and seamless payments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement solutions for the GovOS Cloud Search Application. You’ll collaborate with product and development teams to tackle complex application challenges and enhance the GovOS customer experience. You’ll join a highly collaborative team of 3 Engineers, 1 Product Manager, and 1 UX Designer, working together in two-week sprints.  

Who You Are 

• You work well independently, thinking through problems thoroughly and communicating your findings to stakeholders and teammates.
• You’re comfortable pairing with your team when you’re stuck — or helping others get unstuck — to keep the everyone moving forward.
• You enjoy digging into complex technical issues, sharing knowledge, and driving innovation.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and are motivated by building solutions that make a tangible impact.
• You are comfortable working remotely and can drive your work to completion without close supervision. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Search Solutions: Design, build, and maintain advanced search functionalities within the GovOS SaaS platform, ensuring performance, security, and scalability.
• Technical Standards: Collaborate with Engineers to establish and document best practices for search features and related infrastructure.
• Architecture & Development: Contribute to software architecture and implement critical products and features for cloud applications.
• Clean Code: Write well-designed, efficient, and testable code, following cloud-native development best practices.
• You strive to write code that focuses on: Reliability, Scalability, Security, Usability, & Maintainability
• Troubleshooting: Identify and optimize performance issues in core product software and databases.
• Agile Practices: Participate in SCRUM processes to ensure efficient development from concept to production.
• Security & Compliance: Perform security analyses and address SaaS compliance needs (SOC2, PCI, GDPR).
• CI/CD Automation: Support the automation of build pipelines, streamlining deployment and testing of search functionalities.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and technical leadership to less experienced team members.
• Other Duties: Stay current with emerging technologies and undertake additional responsibilities as assigned. 

 Qualifications 

• Programming: 5+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js and React.
• Cloud Expertise: 5+ years working with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or related cloud services.
• Architectural Skills: Familiarity with microservices, messaging, serverless, distributed caching, containerization, and security.
• Cloud Environments: Hands-on experience with PaaS/IaaS for building SaaS applications.
• Database Proficiency: Strong knowledge of NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Agile Environment: Comfortable working in SCRUM or similar Agile methodologies.
• Compliance Awareness: Understanding of SOC2, PCI, GDPR, and related engineering tasks.
• Testing: Knowledge of automated testing tools and techniques 

Benefits  

• Medical, Dental, Life Insurance - Covers partners and children (if applicable)
• Christmas Bonus
• Vacation Premium
• Savings Fund
• Restaurant Card
• Grocery Ticket
• Wellness, Gifts and Special Moments Fund

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work experience and performance.

GovOS, Inc. (“GovOS”) provides this California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) to describe its privacy practices with respect to its collection of Personal Information as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). GovOS’s CCPA-specific policies can be found at https://govos.com/privacy-policy/ and should be carefully reviewed prior to providing any Personal Information. This Notice applies only to job applicants and candidates for employment who reside in the State of California (“Consumers”) and from whom GovOS collects “Personal Information” (as defined in the CCPA). GovOS provides you with this Notice because under the CCPA, California residents who are job applicants qualify as "Consumers.”