Senior Mobile Software Engineer

• Millions of Americans don’t have reliable access to a laptop or desktop — for a lot of the country, a phone is the only way they’ll ever interact with government services
• GovWell’s mobile presence is still early: real, in the hands of real users, but small enough that most of what it becomes is still being figured out
• GovWell is hiring a Mobile Engineer to join Zach, who’s been building GovWell’s mobile foundation, and help take it from early to real scale
• You’ll work on both sides of mobile at GovWell: giving government staff and field workers a faster, more reliable way to do their jobs, and giving residents a simple, direct way to interact with their local government from their phone
• This role reports directly to our CTO and Co-Founder, Ben Cohen
• Build the field experience GovWell staff actually want to use — fast, reliable, and built for real conditions, not a scaled-down version of the web product
• Make sure the work doesn’t stop just because the signal does. Field staff should never lose progress or have to re-do something because they lost connectivity
• Put permitting and licensing directly in residents’ hands — simple enough that checking a permit status or submitting an application feels as easy as anything else on their phone
• Help define what native mobile craft looks like at GovWell — this is a young product, and the standard you set now is the standard the product grows into
• Shape what’s next as mobile matures: new workflows, new capabilities, and how the staff and citizen experiences evolve relative to each other
• Our tech stack:
• Native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose)
• React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, RedwoodJS, AWS (core platform, for API/backend context)
• OpenAI API

Benefits

• Equity ownership
• 401(k) savings plan
• Unlimited time off
• Hybrid work environment
• Team events and gatherings sponsored by us
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with up to 100% of premiums covered for you and your partner
• A fully stocked kitchen, and drinks on hand

• You align closely with our Core Values
• Product instincts: you can help decide what to build next and why, not just execute a fully-specified ticket
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, early-stage decisions on a product that’s growing quickly
• You think about speed and friction obsessively — tap counts, load times, and the assumption your user might be standing outside, one-handed, in a hurry
• Real experience shipping production mobile apps on iOS and/or Android