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About GovWell

We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve effective and efficient government. But the software powering government services is 20 years behind the private sector. GovWell's mission is to build modern software to help government serve communities better. After launching in 2023, we now partner with municipalities and counties in 16 states serving 700,000 residents. GovWell has raised $5.5 million in venture funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital. Read about us in Tech Crunch.

Founding Story

Our mission is deeply personal for us. Ben Cohen, Co-founder and CTO grew up helping his father - a general contractor - to apply for hundreds of construction permits. Ben's experiences navigating clunky, outdated government websites inspired him to build better solutions for the millions of tradespeople whose livelihoods depend on getting permits fast. Prior to founding GovWell, Ben worked for Uber and Amazon as a Software Engineer, and earned his AB in Computer Science summa cum laude from Princeton.

Troy LeCaire, Co-founder and CEO, was employee #1 and Chief of Staff at RippleMatch, a software startup, helping it grow from $0 to $10M in annual revenue and a $200M valuation. Before RippleMatch, he worked for two U.S. senators from his home state of Wisconsin. He believes passionately in the potential for technology to help government work more effectively for citizens everywhere. Troy earned his BA in Government magna cum laudefrom Cornell.

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Why GovWell?

Impact at scale : Every feature you ship directly improves government services for hundreds of thousands of residents. From permitting small businesses to accelerating affordable housing developments, your work will make an immediate difference.
A mission that matters : Fixing outdated government systems isn't just a technical challenge-it's a chance to improve lives. Your contributions will help governments work better for people who rely on them every day.
A front-row seat to a startup in hyper-growth : As an early team member, you'll learn what it takes to scale a company from the ground up. You'll work closely with the founders, shape the culture, and leave your fingerprints on the product.

Technical challenges GovWell is solving

Building a workflow management system that is powerful and easy to use, but flexible enough to accommodate the unique processes of 80,000 government agencies in the United States (think : Salesforce for governments). Today, GovWell is used to process permit and license applications for everything from new affordable housing developments to small business licenses.

Enabling a Figma-style document review experience that helps governments easily collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents such as building and development plans.

Developing a flexible and powerful document generation system to automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes (think : Canva for documents).

Creating a payments experience that makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in annual permit / license fees, property taxes, and utility bills online.

Meet the Team

Meet Will Henderson-Frost , engineer #1 and owner of our backend service.

Meet Eric Gratta , engineer #2 and owner of our frontend repository.

Meet Nick Vollmar , engineer #3 and owner of everything DevOps and infrastructure.

Meet Amy Wang , engineer #4 and owner of data engineering and data migrations.

Our Tech Stack

RedwoodJS as our fullstack framework provides a modern, integrated development experience.

React and TypeScript power our front-end, enabling seamless user interfaces and strong type safety.

TypeScript and Node.js drive our back-end, delivering scalability and performance.

GraphQL connects our front-end and back-end, facilitating efficient, flexible data communication.

AWS to power our infrastructure

PostgreSQL to run our database

Who You Are

4 years of frontend development

You've built a frontend system from scratch, knowing the intimate details of how data flows to / from every section of the system. If most of your experience is in writing simple display components in React, this role is likely not right for you - but check back in a year!

You are a frontend engineer who loves building products that real people use every day

You'd rather have a challenging adventure than "rest and vest". You are excited about quickly responding to customer feedback with feature updates.

You're motivated by having a positive impact in the world

You have a strong product sense and customer-focused mindset

You align closely with our Core Values and have passion for our mission

Salary and benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include :

Competitive salary meaningful equity

Up to 100% of premiums paid by GovWell for medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself partner

Unlimited / flexible PTO

401(k) program

GovWell is an Equal Opportunity Employer, meaning that we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected class.

Salary : $10 - $200

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