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.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in back-end programming language JavaScript , TypeScript , NodeJs
• Writing HTML , CSS , and JavaScript
• Working with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
• Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests Proficiency with Git Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
• Understanding of microservices and distributed systems

Good to haves:

‍Experience working with AWS infrastructure Docker or Kubernetes Message queues such as Kafka CI/ CD tools such as Jenkins

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design , development and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Node.js , Javascript Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML , JavaScript and CSS)
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• BE/Btech degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Required Skills:

Back-End Programming, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJs, Testing, Node.js, SAAS Product, IT Services, Profitability, ERP, SaaS, IT Service, Web Applications, B2B, Self-Driven, Writing, HTML, CSS, RDBMS, Postgres, MySQL, Git, Microservices, AWS, Infrastructure, Docker, Message Queues, Kafka, CI/CD, Jenkins

As a Senior Technical lead you will be a member of a software development team building innovative new features for the application. Lead the team as Senior Full Stack developer

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Inherit a well-architected, clean, and robust codebase built with .NET Core 5.x, and JavaScript and Angular
• Evaluate and implement new libraries and components
• Ensure best practices are followed in the design and development of the application Contribute to and help manage our open-source libraries
• Strong knowledge of C# and .NET Core, JavaScript, Angular
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB)Real-time web applications (Web Sockets / SignalR)
• Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) Swagger /OpenAPI Initiative
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and practices
• Experience in non-Microsoft tech stacks as Node, Python, Angular and others are also crucial components of Source Control - GitHub Unit / Performance / Load Testing
• Experience with Continuous Integration - Jenkins/Travis/Circle/etc.
• Experience working in Agile Environments - JIRA/Slack
• Working knowledge of SAAS Architecture and Deployments - AWS/Google Cloud/etc.

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The Mission

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Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining Web APP
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to production and support
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface and responsive web apps.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years
• React Web Developer with 2+ years of experience
• Should have worked on NodeJS with express framework
• Understanding of Backend services, API implementation, and database systems. - Familiarity with MySQL and Mongo databases
• We encourage all our devs to have a base level of DevOps skills & w.r.t
• Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP Minimum 1 year of experience in responsive app development
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6
• knowledge of Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud is a plus

Key Skills:

• React/JS, NodeJS, Typescript
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

What you will do:

• Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.
• Provide technical and work direction to the other global developers (be their conduit to the local team)
• Hands-on development of defined architecture and design of both front-end and back-end programming.
• Ability to keep informed of industry trends and technologies.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into specific work items.
• Implement and carry out unit testing.
• Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be automatically built, deployed, and tested using CI/CD pipelines across all of the release cycles from dev to production.
• Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to develop resilient code that performs, and scales based on application usage.
• 6+ years of experience in developing using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Angular and React
• 6+ years of experience building applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web, JSON/XAML-based REST API.
• 3+ years of experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS
• Experience with Unit Testing Frameworks like UnitJS, Mocha
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or Visual Studio Team Services
• Experience with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a distributed and global environment
• Understanding of building applications deployed in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging PaaS and IaaS Services
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of people

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong problem-solving orientation
• Can manage multiple competing tasks/projects at the same time
• Strong team and customer service focus

• Participate with the senior developer in the entire application lifecycle, designing, coding, testing, debugging to deployment.
• Implementing designs and coordinating the frontend development and required backend for it.
• Work on back-end development tasks and designing the architecture for the same.
• Efficient usage of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis etc. as part of the dev work.
• Perform research and find opportunities to utilise web development best practices, form guidelines to improve system productivity, and work on scaling and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maintain and make sure the product should be scalable, maintainable and secure.
• Coordinate with multiple junior team members for the development of the tasks & projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Full-stack developer or Backend but knows Frontend technology.
• Proficiency in Javascript Frameworks like React and thorough knowledge in CSS skills is an added advantage.
• Built an application from scratch earlier.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of any backend language such as Python, Java etc.
• Experience with Backend Web development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release.
• Willingness and enthusiasm drive to learn new technologies.
• The ability to pick the right tools for the job.
• Desire and ability to play different roles as necessary.

• Developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflow.
• Architect the application out in clean MVC kind of architectures in ReactNative for Android/iOS app development.
• Developing APIs with MVC frameworks in Java / Python.
• Designing and building REST APIs.
• Building on and maintaining services on cloud platforms.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

• Self-motivated, team player, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organised, good communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.