Fullstack 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.

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• Build reusable code and libraries for future use, ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Collaborate with team members, including designers and project managers, to translate business and user requirements into technical solutions.
• Implement robust security and data protection measures.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to incorporate into operations and practices.
• Conduct testing to identify bugs and technical issues before and after deploying.
• Document development processes, code changes, and other technical information for reference and reporting.

• Architect, develop and maintain core products and services of the company.
• Create database architecture and best practises for optimization in speed and product operating costs.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs with high-volume large scale transaction processing capabilities.
• Collaborate with design teams to ensure flawless UI and UX is achieved 
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Work with customers in evaluating technical requirements.
• Work closely with the product managers to achieve product vision and goals
• Review work of other developers and contractors, provide feedback and mentoring.
• Assist in the hiring of technical talent.

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role for atleast 3 years 
• In depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Automating the building and deploying of code along with continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)
• Strong experience is deploying and managing application in AWS and Google Cloud
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum 2 years experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm

• Know how to create apis and applications
• Know how to architect and scale databases
• Know how to build front end for applications
• Know how to deploy applications on the cloud

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing existing ruby on rail projects and any future interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating and building the front-end elements required by our team into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• Be an individual contributor and a team player.
• Be able to lead a development project from scratch to execution.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Creating back-end components.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Skills

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Liquid, Slim, etc which will keep on changing based on our technology stack.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Sass, based on project requirements
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, CICD pipeline.
• Familiarity with Graphql and React framework is a bonus.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.