Senior Software Engineer, Mobile

Role Overview

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.

We have a hybrid work culture that combines regular in-person collaboration at our New York City office (3+ days per week) with flexibility to work remotely.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

• Real experience shipping production mobile apps on iOS and/or Android.
• 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.
• Product instincts: you can help decide what to build next and why, not just execute a fully-specified ticket.
• You align closely with our Core Values.

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

Compensation and Benefits

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

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity / stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) program.
• Flexible PTO.

• Below: a picture of the entire GovWell team celebrating our Series A with a boat cruise on the Hudson!
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