OpenGov is the leader in AI and ERP solutions for local and state governments in the U S More than 2 000 cities counties state agencies school districts and special districts rely on the OpenGov Public Service Platform to operate efficiently adapt to change and strengthen the public trust Category-leading products include enterprise asset management procurement and contract management accounting and budgeting billing and revenue management permitting and licensing and transparency and open data These solutions come together in the OpenGov ERP allowing public sector organizations to focus on priorities and deliver maximum ROI with every dollar and decision in sync Learn about OpenGov s mission to power more effective and accountable government and the vision of high-performance government for every community at OpenGov com The Staff Software Engineer is a key member of our engineering team delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better everyday by powering our key community functions Responsibilities Provide leadership at tactical level with input into strategy and team leadership and solve significant and unique problems where analysis requires an evaluation of intangibles Architect design and develop robust APIs and microservices using Nodejs React UI to serve over 100k daily users across hundreds of customer communities Good to have knowledge on Ruby on Rails a EmberJS Own the end to end product lifecycle including collaboration with Product Design and other customer success stakeholders to shape the system Deliver iterative improvements with performant code to realize the product vision and roadmap plans Using an API first approach develop REST microservices that communicate with the event driven platform for Data Reporting services as well as integrate with customer systems Participate in the CICD and DevOps automation initiatives to build test deploy operate on industry leading platforms tools including Azure Cloud Azure Kubernetes Docker GitHub Jenkins Sonar etc You will act as a key contributor to continuously improve the way the team collaborates and delivers while elevating the quality and business value of the product as well as the technical innovation and excellence standards of the team Requirements and Preferred Experience 12 years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self organized Agile environment required 6 years delivering software using an agile methodology required Scrum preferred 6 years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks e g NodeJS React and Ember Angular frameworks will be a plus 6 years of professional experience with NodeJS and or equivalent javascript frameworks Experience working with Kafka Redis will be an advantage Experience building a heavily utilized at scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software Azure Experience with cloud-native software development and delivery with clear understanding of the standard architecture patterns and design practices surrounding Cloud services and deployments Successfully built APIs architected database models including SQL and NoSQL and event-driven patterns Why OpenGov A Mission That Matters At OpenGov public service is personal We are passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government Government that operates efficiently adapts to change and strengthens public trust Some people say this is boring We think it s the core of our democracy Opportunity to Innovate The next great wave of innovation is unfolding with AI and it will impact everything from the way we work to the way governments interact with their residents Join a trusted team with the passion technology and expertise to drive innovation and bring AI to local government We ve touched 2 000 communities so far and we re just getting started A Team of Passionate Driven People This isn t your typical 9-to-5 job we operate in a fast-paced results-driven environment where impact matters more than simply clocking in and out Our global team of 800 employees is united in our commitment to challenge the status quo OpenGov is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Atlanta Boston Buenos Aires Chicago Dubuque Plano and Pune A Place to Make Your Mark We pride ourselves on our performance-based culture where every employee is encouraged to jump in head-first and take action to help us improve If you have a outstanding idea we want to hear it Excellent performance is recognized and rewarded and we love to promote from within