Software Engineer (Mobile)
Company: GovWell
Location: New York, New York, United States
Salary: $195k - $260k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-05
About this role
- Millions of Americans don’t have reliable access to a laptop or desktop — for a lot of the country, a phone is the only way they’ll ever interact with government services
- GovWell’s mobile presence is still early: real, in the hands of real users, but small enough that most of what it becomes is still being figured out
- GovWell is hiring a Mobile Engineer to join Zach, who’s been building GovWell’s mobile foundation, and help take it from early to real scale
- You’ll work on both sides of mobile at GovWell: giving government staff and field workers a faster, more reliable way to do their jobs, and giving residents a simple, direct way to interact with their local government from their phone
- This role reports directly to our CTO and Co-Founder, Ben Cohen
- Build the field experience GovWell staff actually want to use — fast, reliable, and built for real conditions, not a scaled-down version of the web product
- Make sure the work doesn’t stop just because the signal does. Field staff should never lose progress or have to re-do something because they lost connectivity
- Put permitting and licensing directly in residents’ hands — simple enough that checking a permit status or submitting an application feels as easy as anything else on their phone
- Help define what native mobile craft looks like at GovWell — this is a young product, and the standard you set now is the standard the product grows into
- Shape what’s next as mobile matures: new workflows, new capabilities, and how the staff and citizen experiences evolve relative to each other
- Our tech stack:
- Native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose)
- React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, RedwoodJS, AWS (core platform, for API/backend context)
- OpenAI API
### Benefits
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) savings plan
- Unlimited time off
- Hybrid work environment
- Team events and gatherings sponsored by us
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with up to 100% of premiums covered...