Full Stack Developer

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! 

Imagine 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 lives!

🌟 OpenGov is a 2023 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes America's Best Startup Employer 🌟

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

Job Summary:

As a  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 design, implement and optimize complex applications for speed and scalability, and resolve various unique technical challenges. Strong collaboration skills with the product, UX, and platform engineers coupled with the ability to execute quickly will enable your success.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and deploy high-quality software with minimum supervision
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and operational excellence 
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation within the team
• Contribute to OpenGov’s Engineering culture of innovation, leading-edge technology adoption and quality

Requirements and Preferred Experience:

• BA/BS in a computer-science-related discipline or equivalent experience required
• 3+ years of professional experience in developing cloud native applications.
• Proficiency in Java or C++ or C# or equivalent program language is required.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, ReactJS, and NodeJS is required 
• Proficiency in data structures, database concepts, algorithms and observability is required
• Working knowledge of event-driven architecture and Kafka preferred
• Working knowledge of ElasticSearch/OpenSearch preferred

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!

» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here for 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!

» 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.

• We are a startup team of 60+ amazing & diverse individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, and ages.
• We are an employee-first Product Company (not a service-based business), and you get to be a part of an amazing product roadmap.
• This is a 100% remote working opportunity with occasional company & team meetups (which is a lot of fun!)
• We guarantee your experience to be 10x more enriching and faster than a traditional MNC environment
• We work on exciting technologies and are open to try out new things.
• We are close-knit like a family and motivate each other to grow constantly

• We are looking for full stack developers with both front end & backend experience (Angular & .NET & MS SQL)
• In case you don't have much front-end experience in Angular not to worry but backend experience in .NET is critical.
• You should have at least 1 year of relevant experience and not more than 5 years of experience.
• You are interested in being a part of a startup journey of a Product Company.

• Understand existing Web applications & Develop  and maintain .NET Web applications
• Deliver within specified timelines and up to  expected quality standards
• Enhance Web applications as per client change  requests
• Ability to migrate applications from Angular 1 to  Angular 2 and above
• Perform root cause analysis to address issues  reported
• Liaise with peers, if required, and coordinate with other teams (DB, Testing, Front-end) to ensure timely and qualitative delivery.

• Employee Medical Insurance
• Flexible Working Hours
• Remote Working (Freedom to work from anywhere)
• Fast-paced & employee-first work culture enabling you to grow faster
• Gain deep insight into the Marketing & Advertising  industry
• Opportunity to interact with clients
• Performance-driven culture – 6 months  appraisal cycle

• Strong knowledge of Net Core 2.0 with more than 2 live projects
• Basic front-end knowledge of Angular 2+, HTML Javascript, and JQuery skills
• SQL Server 2012/2016
• MVC, Design Patterns & Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD)
• Strong analytical skills
• Fast self-learning attitude
• Exhibit trust & self-respect
• Are a good team player
• Able to manage work & deadlines

• Strong knowledge of Front-end (Angular 2+)
• Knowledge of ASP.Net Web forms 
• Experience with Git
• Familiarity with Azure & AWS platforms
• Leadership/Mentoring skills

• Roles and Responsibilities:
  
  Hands-on experience on Angular, CSS, Scripting, NodeJs/express
  Experience in Responsive Web, Automation, CI/CD, Github, Microservices, Postgres (or any other RDBMS)
  Experience in AWS (SQS, SNS, Cognito)
  Implementing Observability/Monitoring.
  Strong experience in REST APIs

Job description

Finzly is a fintech company, providing innovative solutions to meet the growing needs of Banks and Financial services firms in North America.

Our award-winning open banking platform, BankOS, allows banks to innovate at the speed of “NOW” and compete with Fintech companies in the market.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a team bringing innovation in the finance industry and be a proud engineer.  This means following the industry standards, using clean code and being bold while sharing your thoughts during tough technical conversations. We want you to be a part of all of this!

What we need from you:

• You will join our team to develop awesome products for our customers(Banks and Financial Institutions)
• You will be developing in Java, Spring Boot on the backend and Angular on the frontend
• Learn from our high performing teams, while at the same time providing feedback on how the team could do its job better
• Work with our product owners and help them to convert ideas into working products.
• Sharp focused on delivery. We are results-oriented and need self-starters who do not wait around for direction.

What we need you to bring:

• Deep passion for developing software and continuous learning attitude to write more efficient code.
• Someone who wants to work in a strong team and influence that team on how to perform better
• You enjoy sliding between both front-end and back-end stacks to solve problems instead of just “writing code”
• 5 or more years of experience writing code for web products.
• You have worked with cloud technology

Bonus Points / Nice to Have

• Understanding of CI/CD/Docker/
• Experience/understanding payment processing / payment gateways, e.g. ACH, RTP, SWIFT, PCI compliance
• Experience on messaging and distributed caching.

Our Interview process:

• Recruiter Call (15 min) – Specialist - Recruitment
• Online Programming Test/Offline Assignment(45 to 90 minutes) – Online (This is optional for early joiners)
• Technical Interview (45 to 90 minutes): Sr/Lead R&D Engineers
• System Design + Methodology Interview (1 hour): Director - Engineering
• Final Interview : India Head (1 hour)

• demonstrates a growth mindset, seeks feedback often and is effective in continuous personal and professional development
• provides expertise in all phases of the development lifecycle from concept and design to testing
• defines the architecture, best practices and coding standards for the product development team
• supports continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• motivates team members and extends goodwill to other employees while having fun!

• 2+ years of software industry experience
• Strong Expertise in JS, PHP, React, Node, Angular2+, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software
• Experience in developing Web services - Rest/Soap APIs/HTTP API - Microservices
• Experience setting up and managing servers. Devops experience is a big plus
• Strong exposure on Database like RDBMS - Postgres DB / NoSQL DB like DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
• Experience in Cloud / Storage like Amazon (AWS) - EC2/EBS/S3
• Expertise in test automation
• Familiarity with Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Comfortable collaborating with designers, front-end developers and other team members
• Strong communication skills
• Technical Coaching and mentoring skills
• Understanding of machine learning, natural language processing is a plus

• Producing clean, efficient code based on specifications.
• Fixing and improving existing software
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

• Must have good experience on Asp.Net, MCV, C#, Java script, Jquery etc.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment
• Knowledge of coding languages (e.g. C#,VB, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g. AngularJS, Git)
• Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent communication skills

We're looking for a Full Stack developer who will take a key role on our team. Our Full Stack developer must have knowledge in all stages of software development.

Requirements:

• Design overall architecture of the web application.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organisation.
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Highly experienced with back-end programming with NodeJS, you can easily design and integrate the REST APIs with front end.
• Well versed with JavaScript (frameworks such as ReactJS).
• Development experience for both mobile and desktop.
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Knowledge about Firebase & GoLang is an added advantage.