Software Engineer

You can hail a car in 90 seconds, bank from your phone, and chat with an AI at 2am. Then you spend a Tuesday afternoon waiting for your number to be called at the DMV.

Swap the DMV for a permit office, a licensing board, a planning department — the experience is the same, and it repeats in more than 21,000 municipalities across this country. Trust in government has fallen from 77% to under 20% over the last 60 years, and most people don't form that opinion from the news — they form it in the permit office, on hold, waiting on an inspection that takes 6 weeks to schedule.

We don't think that's abstract or unfixable. We think it's mostly a technology problem, and technology problems can be solved by great engineers.

GovWell is hiring Software Engineers to help build the platform doing that work today, at real scale: 5,000+ permitting and licensing processes running live across 35+ states, with customers reporting processing time cuts of up to 90%. Building departments that used to spend 70% of their time on data entry are spending that time on the work that actually needs a human — reviewing complex plans, meeting with residents, advising developers.