Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Job Description

Job Description

Kaizen Labs is redefining government technology. We believe residents and government staff across America’s 85,000 government agencies deserve access to modern, trusted interfaces that provide critical services like parks & recreation, permitting, public works, and more.

Whether it’s powering a tennis court reservation or the organization of a public rally, our platforms are democratizing access to public services for millions of residents across the country.

Kaizen Labs is rapidly growing across the country, changing the fabric of the communities we live in, and having fun while doing it! Founded in 2022 and based out of New York City, Kaizen Labs is backed by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Full-stack Engineer to join Kaizen Labs. This is a hybrid role, and you will be expected to join our team in-person in New York City for two to three days a week.

You will be responsible for leading and building initiatives to empower municipalities with beautiful, powerful digital experiences.

These interfaces are web applications that allow users to generate permits, make public reservations, participate in community events, take public transit, and so much more.

Technical Challenges at Kaizen

Managing, deploying and scaling our application to thousands of local municipalities

Writing and maintaining reusable and customizable components

Providing a beautiful and performant experience to empower our customers

What You’ll Do

Own, build, and ship new features end-to-end across all levels of the stack

Take shared ownership of the product process, and collaborate with product and design teams to craft great user experiences

Write high-quality testable code that's functional and long-term maintainable

Contribute to high-level architectural decisions, and help to design scalable and efficient systems

Work and interact directly with customers to help find the best short and long term solutions for their needs

What You’ll Bring

6+ years of professional software development experience

Experience in leading or owning large scale, data intensive projects

Proficiency in modern technologies such as Typescript / Javascript / React / Node.js

Strong CS fundamentals and experience with web technologies (HTML / JS / CSS) and GraphQL APIs

Strong written and verbal communication

Customer-obsessed - you care about providing a good user experience and ensure you fully understand user needs before diving into engineering solutions

Exercise sound judgment when making tradeoffs to balance short-term needs with investing in long term foundation

Self aware of strengths and weaknesses, takes initiative and seeks to constantly learn and improve

Nice to Have

Experience in building and scaling e-commerce applications

Some experience with platform and security engineering

Experience with Vercel, Render, GCP, Github Actions

Benefits & Company Salary Range

Platinum PPO health care plus premium coverage for dental & vision

Unlimited PTO

Competitive equity grants

Employer-sponsored 401k

Salary bands range from $100 - 250k