Senior Software Engineer - Full-Stack

Posted 18 Days Ago
New York, NY
100K-250K Annually
3-5 Years Experience
eCommerce • Social Impact • Software • Sports • Consulting • App development • Utilities
We empower municipalities with beautiful, powerful digital experiences.
The Role
As a Senior Full-stack Engineer, you will lead the development of web applications that empower municipalities, managing features across the stack while ensuring high-quality, maintainable code. Your role includes collaboration with product and design teams, contributing to architectural decisions, and interacting with customers to enhance user experiences.
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Company

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

Top Skills

JavaScript
Typescript
The Company
New York, NY
10 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

The technology you build is used by 2 million+ residents for things like booking swim classes, making sports facility reservations, booking campsites, performing city maintenance, and so much more. We are also backed by some of the best VCs, including A16Z and Accel Partners.

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