Staff Full-Stack Engineer

About Govra Govra is building intelligence infrastructure for governments, starting with tax. We're replacing the fragmented, manual processes at the heart of state agencies with intelligent systems that help teams investigate cases, make decisions, and operate at a scale that wasn't previously possible. Our deployments are projected to help states recover hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue. We're an early-stage company backed by General Catalyst, recently named to Forbes' inaugural Agentic 20 alongside Instinct, OpenAI, and Meta. We’re a small, ambitious team helping governments build the capacity to deliver on their responsibilities and better serve their citizens.

About the role We are seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to help build and scale Govra's intelligent operating system for governments. You will work closely with the founders, customers, and product design teams to ship vital real systems in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. This role is ideal for someone who can go deep technically, think from first principles about product and UX, and move quickly from customer workflows to production code.

What you'll do

• Build core product systems: Research, design, architect, and implement features and improvements across our platform.
• Design and improve government workflows: Develop intelligent systems that help agencies automate complex processes and turn operational work into intuitive software.
• Move fast while maintaining quality: Ship production code quickly while balancing reliability, maintainability, observability, and long-term technical decisions.
• Evolve our engineering infrastructure: Improve GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation, and the systems that help us ship reliably.
• Improve our agentic coding workflows: Develop and refine Claude Code setup, AGENTS.md, custom skills, and internal tooling that increase developer productivity.
• Drive clear, accountable execution: Scope work, estimate effort, communicate tradeoffs and progress clearly, and consistently follow through on the systems you own.

Experience & Requirements

• Must have 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ in a staff role
• Worked professionally on a Phoenix Liveview (Elixir) code base or has sufficient personal experience with it to be productive from day 1
• Have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, vector DBs, and evals beyond simply using APIs
• Have startup experience and are comfortable scaling early products from MVP to production
• Can design and build intuitive UXs independently, while partnering with design on complex flows
• Actively seek out user feedback and translate customer insights into product improvements
• Are willing to spend two weeks per quarter in person with customers
• Are curious and excited about making government work better
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate ambiguity to deliver high-quality products

What we offer

• Meaningful equity in an early-stage company
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Direct collaboration with senior leaders across public and private sectors

Equal Opportunity Govra is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.