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...

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