Senior Front-end Engineer

1 week ago

Denver, Colorado, United States OpenGov Full time
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 thriveImagine yourself being able to help small business owners open their doors faster, ensuring our tax dollars are accounted for, creating safer infrastructure, modernizing the permitting process, and assisting with disaster recovery.

The work you do here every day has a meaningful impact on people's livesOpenGov is a 2023 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes America's Best Startup Employer.

OpenGov is a high growth, late stage venture backed startup with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective.

Our Board of Directors includes iconic Silicon Valley executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO) and Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world).

Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life

This position requires a minimum of 2-3 days a week working onsite in OpenGov's Boston, MA office.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build the best-in-class SaaS solution that enables 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 computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better every day by powering our key community functions.

We value self-starters with intrinsic motivation, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively with the goal to contribute to OpenGov's culture of accountability, respect, dedication, and fun.

We value clean code, principles over dogma, customer collaboration, teamwork, and thought leadership.
What You'll Do - 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 OpenGov event driven platform for Data & Reporting services, as well as integrate with customer systems.


  • Participate in the CI/CD 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.
What You'll Bring - Experience

  • 5+ years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self organized Agile environment
  • 4+ years delivering software using an agile methodology (Scrum ideally)
  • 4+ years of professional experience with microservices in any modern programming language and willingness to work on NodeJS Ruby On Rails; modern Javascript frameworks and willingness to work on ReactJS, EmberJS
  • 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.

What makes OpenGov unique» Leadership:
CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO.

He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018» Funding:

Over $250 million, late stage venture backed startup, from top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective

» Board of Directors:

Includes iconic executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO), Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world), and Amy Pressman (co-founder, former president, and a current board member of Medallia)

» Growth:

Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here to read more.

» Culture:


Winner of 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, Awarded Top 25 Cloud Companies to Work For, Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, 50 Best Workplaces award.

Check out our Careers Video» Perks:

90% paid Medical/Dental/Vision premium for employees, fully paid Life and Short/Long term disability insurance, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave policy, annual wellness stipend, anniversary awards, and more» Product:

Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies

» Mission Driven:

We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.
Come join us and make a positive social impact

OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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