OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive!
Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!
As a Sr. Software Engineer II at OpenGov, you'll build best-in-class SaaS solutions that enable efficiency, transparency, and accountability within government agencies. You'll be a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern technologies, including ReactJS, JavaScript, GraphQL, and NodeJS.
A typical day in this role would provide opportunities to optimize applications for speed and scalability and resolve a variety of unique technical challenges. Strong collaboration skills with the product, UX, and platform engineers, along with the ability to execute quickly will enable your success.
Passion for good component design and solid application architecture comes naturally to you, as does navigating the troubled seas of browser compatibility. We value natural self-starters with the ability to communicate ideas effectively and contribute to OpenGov's culture of respect, dedication, and fun. You value clean code, principles over dogma, and making the world a little better every day.
What you'll make happen
• Write robust, highly performant, well-crafted code.
• See a project through from start to completion, including discovery, rapid prototyping, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Design and develop well-structured and easy-to-consume APIs.
• Implement unit and integration tests to improve and maintain high code coverage.
• Deliver quality, scalable, and maintainable software to customers at an impressive pace.
• Contribute to OpenGov’s Engineering culture of innovation, leading-edge technology adoption, and quality.
You get excited by
• Discovering unique solutions to complex challenges.
• Modern web technology, tools, and processes.
• Cloud-based software deployment and delivery.
• Constant learning and adaptation of the latest technologies.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring colleagues.
Key Traits
• Specifier: you naturally drive for specificity, accuracy, and expertise.
• Organizer: you instinctually organize objectives into specific tasks and workflows.
• Transformer: you transform high-level concepts into tangible products.
• Team Player: you are willing to take input from others and work toward a greater good.
• Customer Focused: you are mindful of customers’ needs and keep customers as a top focus.
• Autonomous: you naturally self-manager and own your tasks from start to finish.
• Craftsman: you take pride in your work and deliver quality software.
Required Education and Experience
• BA/BS in a computer-science-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience with JavaScript.
• 5+ years of professional experience with ReactJS, NodeJS.
• 5+ years of professional experience with a modern cloud platform (AWS/Azure).
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering software solutions.
• Proven ability to collaborate with product management, stakeholders, designers, and engineers.
Preferred Education and Experience
• Experience with GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Grafana.
• Reactive software architectures.