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Position Summary:
We’re growing our engineering team and hiring a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of our software products. This role leans toward backend development and platform/DevOps engineering. Familiarity with front-end development is a plus. This role offers high-impact opportunities to build modern cloud-native software that directly improves how companies navigate a complex employment law compliance landscape. You’ll provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance for your cross-functional team, and solve interesting problems while delivering high-quality products on modern software stacks.
Flexible Work Model:
We believe the best way for us to grow is by creating a work environment that offers greater flexibility. This means providing opportunities for employees to be together in the office a few days per week, where interactions can occur more frequently and effectively. Being in person helps foster collaboration and team engagement, which is especially important when addressing complex problems and driving business innovation. At the same time, we value the focused, uninterrupted time that working from home provides, allowing for more dedicated project and productive work with minimal distractions.
Reports to: Director of Software Engineering
Status: Regular Full-Time
Pay: $150,000 – $170,000
Send resume, salary requirements, and cover letter to:
careers@govdocs.com
Best Places to Work:
GovDocs was named one of the 2024 Best Places to Work by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal!
Being named an honoree was no easy feat, as they received over 300 nominations for this year’s award. GovDocs was one of the top-scoring Minnesota businesses honored in the medium company category (50-250 employees) for creating a fun, challenging, and rewarding workplace.
Read more about GovDocs as Best Places to Work 2024 here: https://bizj.us/1qlh8s
What You’ll Do:
- Design and build full-stack product features using TypeScript, React (with Mantine), and AWS serverless technologies following well-established design patterns and engineering practices\
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews
- Debug and resolve issues across the stack
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver valuable functionality
- Mentor teammates and foster a culture of ownership, learning, and inclusion
- Promote high standards in engineering quality, operational excellence, and team collaboration
- Lead backend development of microservices in AWS with a domain-driven approach to API design and data modeling, ensuring scalable and maintainable systems
- Drive improvements to infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, system observability, and automated testing to support fast and safe delivery
What You Bring:
- 5+ years of recent and relevant experience designing, building, and scaling cloud-native software and services
- Fluency across the stack, from backend APIs and databases like MongoDB to JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, testing practices, and system architecture
- Clear communication, thoughtful collaboration, and an ownership mindset
- Strong experience developing backend microservices using AWS, serverless architectures (including Lambda), containers, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB
- Deep expertise in AWS, serverless architecture, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK), with experience improving CI/CD, observability, and automated testing
- Experience with or openness to AI-augmented tooling for software development. We leverage several AI systems to support and elevate our engineers and encourage exploration within this space to enhance our team’s output.
- Strong convictions, weakly held. You are opinionated with respect to areas of your expertise, but are always open to learning new approaches or flexing into new domains.
- A bias for action, striving for rapid delivery with a with a pragmatic mindset and love of experimentation.
- Strong communication skills, able to articulate and justify your stances verbally and especially through writing.
Who You Are:
- You lead by example and share your passion to inspire those around you for growth. You are authentic, driven and positive.
- You possess emotional intelligence and empathy. You have a good sense of humor, are selfaware and self-critical, but not arrogant. You handle interpersonal dynamics with grace.
- You do more than the minimum to achieve outstanding results by being hands-on and rolling up your sleeves now and again when it’s necessary.
- You thrive in a growth-oriented company by embracing and adapting to changes easily. You are open-minded and flexible.
- Your clear communication fosters understanding and collaboration. You express ideas effectively but are also an active listener.
Company Description:
GovDocs serves companies in building and executing their employment law compliance program in two primary ways:
- Employment Law Posting Service: We manage all the complexities of identifying and providing the required set of employment law postings from the 1,500+ potential postings across the U.S. and Canada. Using proprietary technology, we allow companies to manage, track and verify postings at each of their locations – including our patent pending PosterCheck technology. Our Employment Law Posting Update service is used by almost 20% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the Fortune 100.
- Employment Law Compliance Software Solutions: This is a first to market Software-as-a-Service starting with our Minimum Wage product and Paid Leave products, which allow companies to identify and track which laws apply to their locations and employees, then provides all relevant data to make decisions. This service was created in response to requests from some of our largest customers who recognized that employment law expansion across and variances between jurisdictions (Federal, State and Local) were too difficult to manually track.
GovDocs has grown revenue annually by 18% since 2008 with a 96% customer retention rate, primarily due to our Postings Update Program both obtaining and retaining customers – as employment law postings are required by law, every company has an existing provider. Our Software Solutions are an entirely new line of business that gives us great growth potential to create a full Employment Law Compliance (ELC) platform of solutions, it is also challenging us to reinvent how we view urgency, innovation, and teamwork.
You must be authorized to work in the United States. Immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Compensation
This position is critical to the success of our business and the compensation package will be commensurate with candidate’s experience and skills. This role will include a base salary and performance-based incentives. Benefits include; paid vacation, paid volunteer time, paid holidays, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending account, health savings account, group life insurance, voluntary life insurance, group short-term disability, group long-term disability, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, a matching 401(k), employee assistance programs, pet health insurance, and value-added programs.
Send resume, salary requirements, and cover letter to:
careers@govdocs.com