Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer - Govra, San Francisco, USA

Introduction

Govra builds the operating system modern governments run on. We turn dense statutes and tangled rules into executable workflows, embedding intelligence directly into the work so agencies make faster, more accurate and more consistent decisions at scale. We are seeking a Senior or 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.

About us

My name: Garrett Massman
My position: Lead Software Engineer
Company name: Govra
Company website: govra.com
Company headquarters (country): USA
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc): Our app is built with Elixir and Phoenix and currently serves four state Departments of Revenue. We are a small, dynamic team building the core infrastructure that goverments will rely on in the age of AI. We are fully AI-native, regularly leveraging Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

About the job

Job title: Senior or Staff Full Stack Engineer
Job description: 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.

Salary range: Salary will be commensurate with your experience and be accompanied with a highly valuable equity component. Apply for details.

Qualifications or experience required:

Must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ in a senior 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 the successful job applicant will be working on: Here are some projects we need help with

Document processing pipelines for our audit case product
Improvements to the tax knowledge base search engine central to all product lines
Legislation management workflows

Position on remote work

Remote job: partially
Remote restrictions: Must be based in SF Bay Area
Remote leeway: Let us know if you are willing to move
Any other notes about your position on remote work: Expect hybrid work with 3 days in-office per week.