🏛️ About GovWell

We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve effective government. But the software powering government services is 20 years behind the private sector. GovWell’s mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better. After launching in 2023, we now partner with government agencies in 14 states serving 500,000+ residents. GovWell has raised $5.5 million in venture funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital.

📜 Founding Story

Our mission is deeply personal for us. Ben Cohen, Co-founder and CTO grew up helping his father — a general contractor — to apply for hundreds of construction permits. Ben’s experiences navigating clunky, outdated government websites inspired him to build better solutions for the millions of tradespeople whose livelihoods depend on getting permits fast. Prior to founding GovWell, Ben worked for Uber and Amazon as a Software Engineer, and earned his AB in Computer Science summa cum laude from Princeton.

Troy LeCaire, Co-founder and CEO, was employee #1 and Chief of Staff at RippleMatch, a software startup, helping it grow from $0 to $10M in annual revenue and a $200M valuation. Before RippleMatch, he worked for two U.S. senators from his home state of Wisconsin. He believes passionately in the potential for technology to help government work more effectively for citizens everywhere. Troy earned his BA in Government magna cum laude from Cornell.

💻 What you’ll do

• Build a world-class team. A company is only as strong as its people, and you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring GovWell attracts and secures the top 1% of engineers and product builders who align with our vision.

• Establish a scalable recruiting pipeline. Through proactive outreach on LinkedIn and other platforms, you’ll source a high volume of candidates while developing a repeatable and efficient system for ongoing talent acquisition.

• Coordinate candidate experience. You’ll manage the end-to-end applicant journey, ensuring smooth scheduling, seamless communication, and an exceptional experience for every candidate—from initial outreach to onsite interviews.

• Foster a mission-driven community. With our NYC presence and purpose-driven mission, you’ll help build a network of engineers and product leaders in the area who are inspired to use technology to make a positive impact.

🧮 Technical challenges GovWell is solving

• Building a workflow management system that is powerful and easy to use, but flexible enough to accommodate the unique processes of 80,000+ government agencies in the United States (think: Salesforce for governments). Today, GovWell is used to process permit and license applications for everything from new affordable housing developments to small business licenses.

• Enabling a Figma-style document review experience that helps governments easily collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents such as building and development plans.

• Developing a flexible and powerful document generation system to automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes (think: Canva for documents).

• Creating a payments experience that makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in annual permit/license fees, property taxes, and utility bills online.

💼 Our recruiting stack

• LinkedIn Recruiter for targeted candidate sourcing and outreach.

• Ashby to track applicants, streamline the hiring process, and ensure a seamless candidate experience.

• Zoom for virtual interviews and collaboration with candidates.

• Slack for team coordination and rapid communication about candidates and hiring priorities.

🖥️ Our tech stack

• RedwoodJS as our fullstack framework provides a modern, integrated development experience.

• React and TypeScript power our front-end, enabling seamless user interfaces and strong type safety.

• TypeScript and Node.js drive our back-end, delivering scalability and performance.

• GraphQL connects our front-end and back-end, facilitating efficient, flexible data communication.

🧠 Who you are

• 🎯 4+ years of recruiting experience

• You’ve successfully built and scaled technical teams by attracting top-tier talent. Some examples of your expertise might include:

  • Proactive Sourcing: You’re a sourcing powerhouse, leveraging LinkedIn, GitHub, and other platforms to identify and engage exceptional candidates. You’re skilled at building pipelines that surface hidden talent.

  • Scaling Recruiting Operations: You’ve developed and implemented systems to streamline the hiring process, including ATS workflows, reporting, and structured interview plans to support growth.

  • Employer Branding: You’ve helped define and promote a company’s talent brand through creative content, events, and partnerships to attract mission-driven candidates.

  • Candidate Experience: You’ve designed and executed hiring processes that leave candidates feeling valued and excited, even those who don’t receive an offer.

  • Diversity and Inclusion: You’ve driven initiatives to ensure equitable hiring practices and diverse candidate pipelines, resulting in stronger and more representative teams.

• 🌟 You’re adventurous and driven: You’d rather help build something great than coast at an easy job. You’re energized by feedback and thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments.

• ❤️ You’re motivated by impact: You want to use your skills to build a team that drives meaningful, positive change in the world.

• 💡 You align closely with our Core Values and have passion for our mission

💸 Salary and benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include:

• Competitive base salary

• Equity / stock options

• Up to 100% of premiums paid by GovWell for medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself + partner

• Unlimited / flexible PTO

GovWell is an Equal Opportunity Employer, meaning that we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected class. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.