Software Engineer

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

The Software Engineer role at Granicus is for developers growing their technical and software development skills developing products in a SaaS-based environment. They take on challenging technical tasks and consistently make significant contributions to all areas of the Granicus product suite. Software Engineers are proficient in multiple different technologies and gain on-the-job experience applying their knowledge and experience in improving the design and quality of our products. They understand the deployment process and support our applications in all environments. As they gain expertise, they share their knowledge with the broader engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management and business stakeholders to deliver SaaS-based solutions.
• Communicate and work effectively with others to create great high-quality software.
• Work in line with the software development process and actively seek to improve it.
• Proactively improve the design and architecture of our products.
• Design and implement solutions that are highly secure, performant, scalable, and highly available.
• Support and maintain existing products.
• Come up with technical solutions to problems and push them through to implementation.
• Mentor and provide technical training to team members.
• Help train and onboard new hires.
• Champion the development team’s core values.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing, testing, shipping, and supporting production-quality SaaS-based web applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience with web frameworks: React, GraphQL, and Node.js.
• Experience developing unit tests.
• Experience with databases (MongoDB, SOLR, Redis).
• Experience with GCP services – storage, queues, cache, etc.
• Commitment to quality and the craft of software development.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for learning new things and the ability to do so quickly.
• Ability to serve as a technical leader of an open, collaborative, and extraordinarily skilled software development team.

Security and Privacy Requirements

• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking appropriate measures to protect it.

Company Information

Serving the People Who Serve the People

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the GovTech industry by bringing governments and their constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers by meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as one of the best companies to work for on BuiltIn.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers powering an unmatched Subscriber Network that uses our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

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