Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Most engineers never see the impact of their code. This role is the exception.

Our client is a venture-backed, founder-led software company building for local government. Their platform handles work that directly affects how communities are funded, and when it gets a decision right, real people and real budgets are better off for it.

The company is recognized nationally year after year, works with government offices across a large and growing number of states, and has a track record of measurable results its customers talk about openly.

This year they moved from a focused single product into a broader AI-powered platform, with LLM-driven automation already running in production rather than sitting on a roadmap. Regulatory changes are pushing demand toward them faster than the market can absorb. This is a small team that grew carefully and is now stepping on the gas.

What you will do

• Build backend services in Python (FastAPI, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Celery, Redis) that run across hundreds of counties. Multi-tenancy, observability, and cost are yours to own.
• Build clean, simple front ends in Vue 3 and TypeScript for users who are not technologists.
• Direct and review multiple coding agents at once (Claude Code, Cursor) and help shape how the whole team works with AI.
• Write specs before code and define what "done" means.
• Talk directly with the county staff who use what you build, and make product calls based on what you learn.

Why this is a career move

• You will be doing agentic development in production, in a regulated domain, at scale, years before most teams figure it out.
• You will own systems end to end, not tickets. That is how engineers become architects and technical leads.
• Your work produces numbers a community can point to.
• No degree requirement, no committees. A small team that judges you on what you ship and how you think.

Who this is for

• 5-8 years shipping real software, including time at a small company where you owned things end to end
• Professional, production-grade Python building APIs and pipelines (not scripting or side projects)
• Strong JavaScript fundamentals; Vue preferred, strong vanilla JS welcome
• Daily user of an agentic coding tool who can say exactly what you delegate and what you refuse to
• Experience running more than one agent at a time and guarding against goal drift, file collisions, and runaway loops
• Strong reviewer who catches the architectural problem, not just the typo
• Product-minded, client-facing, and clear in writing

Nice to have: PostGIS, Playwright, MCP, feature flags, design systems, Auth0, Sentry, Datadog, AWS. Govtech, proptech, fintech, or other regulated-domain experience.

The details

• Base salary: $130,000 to $140,000
• Fully remote within the continental US, Eastern or Central time zones
• Must be a U.S. citizen. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.