OpenGov is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to deliver new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive their mission to make the world a little better everyday by powering key community functions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self organized Agile environment required
- 4+ years delivering software using an agile methodology required (Scrum preferred)
- 4+ years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, and Ember)
- Experience building a heavily utilized at scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software
- Experience with cloud-native software development and delivery with clear understanding of the standard architecture patterns and design practices surrounding Cloud services and deployments
- Successfully built APIs, architected database models including SQL and NoSQL, and event-driven patterns
Responsibilities
- Architect, design and develop robust APIs and microservices using Ruby on Rails & a modern EmberJS/React UI to serve over 100k daily users across hundreds of customer communities
- Own the end to end product lifecycle including collaboration with Product, Design and other customer success stakeholders to shape the system
- Deliver iterative improvements with performant code to realize the product vision and roadmap plans
- Using an API first approach, develop REST microservices that communicate with the event driven platform for Data & Reporting services, as well as integrate with customer systems
- Participate in the CICD and DevOps automation initiatives to build, test, deploy & operate on industry leading platforms & tools including AWS Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Spinnaker, NewRelic etc.
- You will act as a key contributor to continuously improve the way the team collaborates and delivers, while elevating the quality and business value of the product, as well as the technical innovation and excellence standards of the team
Other
- Provide leadership at tactical level with input into strategy and team leadership, and solve significant and unique problems where analysis requires an evaluation of intangibles
- This isn’t your typical 9-to-5 job; we operate in a fast-paced, results-driven environment where impact matters more than simply clocking in and out.
- We pride ourselves on our performance-based culture, where every employee is encouraged to jump in head-first and take action to help us improve.
- If you have a great idea, we want to hear it.
- Excellent performance is recognized and rewarded, and we love to promote from within.
