Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Builds features for permitting, licensing and community development products used by cities, working in a small senior pod that directs coding agents. Owns each feature from specification through production delivery.

What you will do

• Take features from spec to production within the pod's agentic workflow, owning correctness, performance and security
• Test what agents produce and avoid merging code you cannot explain
• Feed lessons about the framework and workflows back to the pod and the applied AI team
• Learn the permitting, licensing, plan review and inspection domain before changing workflows

What they look for

• Seven or more years shipping production web applications, with strong API design, data modeling, testing and cloud fundamentals
• Hands-on experience building with coding agents and AI assisted tools, including shipped production code
• Strong written communication, since spec quality drives code quality
• Habit of reading and verifying everything you ship, including code you did not type
• Comfort with fast pace and ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience in government, civic or regulated software where auditability and accessibility are required
• Experience with permitting or land management