Introduction
We’re a venture-backed Seattle startup on a mission to streamline permitting and development with AI, cutting delays, cost, wait states, and confusion so communities can build the housing they need.
Our edge is Conversational Workflow + Agentic AI: retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling and reasoning agents, and city data pipelines that surface the right answer, in the right channel, at the right moment—web, email, or voice.
Our goal is to move the permit applicant from Hello to approved permit transparently and responsively, in the short amount of time, and at the lowest possible cost to the city and to applicant, to make the entire building process more efficient.
Led by a GovTech veteran team, we’re a tight, remote-first team that prizes transparency, execution, and customer success. We’re finishing raising our seed round now.
About us
My name: Chris Duranti
My position: Founding Engineer
Company name: Govstream.ai
Company website: https://www.govstream.ai/
Company headquarters (country): USA, Seattle WA
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc): We’re building our permit application product in Elixir
About the job
Job title: Senior Engineer
Job description: As a senior engineer you’ll architect, build, and scale everything from multi-step AI agents to low-latency APIs—spanning PermitGuide, Application Assistant, First Review, and the shared platform beneath them. Over time, we’ll expand our product footprint to match the full scope of the permitting process that we seek to streamline.
Salary range: 150-180k + meaningful equity
Position on remote work
Remote, bonus points for Seattle area; we try to meet up once a week to chat IRL
Remote job: Yes but bonus points for the Seattle area
Remote restrictions: Ideally overlapping PST, otherwise you may end up working weird hours
Remote leeway: For the right person we can make things work.
Any other notes about your position on remote work: Nope.
Qualifications or experience required: 5+ years of full stack experience. Fluency across the stack—React/TypeScript on the front; Elixir/Python on the back. Hands-on success delivering AI-powered or data-driven products (embeddings, vector search, ML pipelines, agent frameworks). Architecture instincts: simplify complexity and leave systems cleaner than you found them. Startup DNA: autonomy, bias for action, low ego—comfortable making 0 → 1 decisions. A product mindset: you care as much about user outcomes and business value as elegant code.
What the successful job applicant will be working on: You’ll be working on Application Assistant, which will be our end to end permitting product. It is a traditional software product in that it is a deterministic rules engine and permit workflow tool, but we weave in modern AI and ML where appropriate to help the applicant and permit office reach a resolution more quickly and easily. Yes, our domain name ends in .ai and we leverage AI to a large extent, but our product is not a pile of agents all doing inscrutable things. A solid understanding of where to use fancy stuff and where not to is required.
About the interview process
We’ll do an informational round, then we’ll do a few system design questions. You’ll have a short take home programming question to do (really, it is actually short) and then we’ll do a pair programming refactor.
Further info
Email me at chris.duranti@govstream.ai or contact me on discord @rozap.
