Software Development Engineer-2(Fullstack)

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Software Engineer who’s passionate about building scalable, high-performance applications using Java and Kotlin on AWS. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams — including DevOps, QA, and Product — to design, develop, and deliver robust software solutions.

Our culture values collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning. We embrace modern technologies to solve real-world problems and continuously evolve our platform to meet changing business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance features to collect, process, and deliver user-generated content.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build end-to-end solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and technical brainstorming sessions.
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks and technical issues.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling initiatives.
• Maintain and improve application reliability, scalability, and security.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of full-stack development experience using Java/Kotlin and AWS.
• Hands-on experience in API development for front-end applications.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and handling large datasets.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Drone).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and idempotent patterns.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with automated database migration tools (Liquibase, Flyway).
• Experience with cloud storage (AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage, Azure Blob) or document data stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Experience containerizing applications using Docker and deploying to ECS or Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
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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.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Responsibilities

• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the latest frameworks

• Deliver across the entire application life cycle in the stages of concept, design, build, deployment, test, and release to app stores and support.

• Collaborate with product owners and designers to translate product requirements and designs into reality

• Own and develop feature sets that involve responsive UIs and restful services to ensure a seamless user experience.

• Interact with the product, engineering, and business teams across geographies to leverage their expertise and contribute efficiently.

• Ensure that all components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.

• Continuously optimize and improve the application performance

• Proactively acquire knowledge of the latest industry trends and best practices in mobile technologies to implement them and educate the teams to increase the effectiveness of technology solutions.

Requirements

• B.Tech/ B.S. or M.Tech/ M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, IT, or related field

• 2-6 years of experience

Mandatory Skills

• 2+ years of experience designing and building production-level web applications including:

• Programming knowledge in JavaScript, NodeJS

• Good knowledge in developing front-end software, with deep experience in one or more relevant

front-end frameworks (ReactJs, Angular, Vue etc.).

• Expertise in Web/mobile app development using React Native

• Experience in product development on mobile platforms using React Native

• Familiar in developing backend (JS/Node/C#).

• Basic understanding of RDBMS databases

• Working knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, and development best practices. Ability to

independently write code and unit test cases

• Mastery of standard frontend technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use React,

Redux, Webpack, NodeJS etc.), REST, and JSON.

Desirable Skills

• ES6/7, Node, package management /webpack/parcel.

• Exposure to data modeling with any of the database technologies.

• Full stack understanding of web/mobile/API/database development concepts and patterns.

• Experience in DevOps would be a plus.

• Experience in TypeScript would be a plus.

• Excitement about the latest trends in application design

Full-stack developer  - Remote position

Are you...

• Interested in working at a successful, well-funded start-up where every team member can make a huge contribution?
• Keen to make software that people will use every single day to make their lives easier?
• Excited to work on greenfield projects with responsibility and independence?
• Ready to develop and use your skills across our frontend, backend and mobile offerings?
• Meticulous about quality, and gifted with a strong desire to write beautiful code?

About the company

KeyNest solves the key exchange problem for Airbnb users. Our worldwide network of over 4,000 shops store keys so that Airbnb guests / cleaners / contractors can pick them up whenever is convenient for them. As a global partner of Airbnb we’ve checked-in over 2 million guests.

Why we need you

As the entire Airbnb ecosystem increasingly relies on KeyNest, our customers expect us to integrate additional features without reducing the ease of use that our customers love. This is why we continue to invest in beautiful, intuitive user interfaces that integrate with every tool and are used by our customers, their guests and staff, as well as our own staff.

Our product team is lead by one of the founders and complete with a director of engineering, product manager, UX designer, one mobile developer and one senior full-stack developer who will be mentoring you. We want to work with a developer who cares about the way their code impacts the people who use it.

With a genuine passion for high quality work, attention to detail and readiness to own your own projects, you will be looking for a new and exciting challenge which allows you to use your experience to drive change and maintain the high standards of our organisation.

Our Tech Stack

• C# MVC modern tech stack
• Front end web in TypeScript & Angular or Node & React
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and follow SOLID design principles.
• EF 6.0
• SQL Server 2017
• Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban)
• TFS
• Cloud hosted in Azure with micro-services architecture

Your qualities

• 2-4 years experience in C#
• Front-end web experience in Angular
• Track record of building great products
• Excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
• You’ll love the idea of being a big part of a small team: if you come up with a great idea, you can take it all the way to production
• Motivation and ambition to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Not afraid to take on responsibilities

What we offer

• Crucial role in a funded, dynamic & fast-growing start-up shaking up the sharing economy
• Competitive salary based on relevant experience
• Flexible working for our most committed staff
• Unparalleled opportunities to develop your career as the company develops rapidly

If you want to join the KeyNest team, please get in touch – we look forward to meeting you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What You’ll Do:

• Enable and exercise your problem solving and analytical skills.
• Design and develop Java/J2EE based full stack software components including complex modeling, MVC based UI, etc.
• Ensure applications are implemented to meet business and technical requirements.
• Work with high performing engineering teams across global locations.

.What You Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Solid 5-10 years hands-on design and coding experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development, JSF/Primefaces, JPA/Hibernate, Spring, ActiveMQ.
• Strong object-oriented design, Java/J2EE and MVC architecture based programming skills.
• Solid relational DBMS skills using MySQL, or other RDBMS products.
• Desirable - Experience in Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Kafka, MongoDB, etc.)
• Nice to have - Real-world experience in large scale, and high availability implementations.
• Experience developing web services using REST and SOAP approaches.

Strong experience on core Java (Version >=1.8 )

Strong experience on Spring ecosystem (Core, MVC, data, JPA, transaction management, security, AOP, Batch & Boot). Comfortable performing integration tests in Spring context.

Strong experience on JDBC and DB concepts.

Experience of TDD/BDD approach and prior experience working with CI/CD tools (Maven, Git, jenkins)

Strong experience on ORM (hibernate) and PL/SQL procedures

Knowledge of some of UI latest languages / frameworks ( Html5, Angular 4+)

Knowledge of SOA/Microservices (REST, Soap) and its challenges

Strong knowledge on APP server (Tomcat, Weblogic)

Strong knowledge on Microservices

Exposure on Digital stack

-          UX/UI

-          API

-          Machine Learning

-          Big Data

-          Cloud/Docker/IaaS/PaaS

Knowledge on Java Swing

Experience delivering sound development, testing, implementation, deployment and support strategies in complex distributed environments.

Knowledge on production monitoring tools.

Good experience in leading change within a team, especially around testing and quality practices.

Team player, who relentlessly involves others and shares knowledge with them

Should have experience of participant in design reviews and code reviews.

Curiosity in all the latest trends and ready to do POCs with new technical stack