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Staff Software Engineer

Esper · Austin, Texas · Hybrid

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About Esper

Provisioning, configuration, updates, and telemetry for POS, kiosks, payment terminals, and clinical devices. Esper is device management infrastructure for dedicated devices. Backed by Insight, Alchemist and Madrona.

About the role

Esper is looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team and take technical ownership of significant areas of our platform. This is a senior individual contributor role without direct reports. Because Esper's customers include state, local, and federal government agencies, the reliability, security, and compliance posture of our platform is central to the business. As a senior member of the engineering team, you'll make a direct impact through:

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong programming skills in a language such as Java, Python, Go, or Rust, and willingness to work primarily in Java
  • Experience owning services in production, including their data stores, deployment, and observability
  • Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous or long-running workflows
  • Experience with domain and data modeling, and the judgment to know when a model needs to change
  • Experience building production software on AWS or a comparable cloud provider
More about this role

At Esper, we’re on a mission to empower dynamic and responsive policymaking in government. We’re building the platform that connects existing data, stakeholders, and public policy goals into a single dynamic system, transforming bureaucracy into infrastructure that encourages innovation and collaboration.

As a fast-growing GovTech company, Esper is at the intersection of two powerful forces: the modernization of government operations and the transformative potential of data-driven decision-making. Our customer base is expanding rapidly, and we’re building the team that will define how public policy is shaped for decades to come.

Esper is looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team and take technical ownership of significant areas of our platform. This is a senior individual contributor role without direct reports. Because Esper's customers include state, local, and federal government agencies, the reliability, security, and compliance posture of our platform is central to the business.

As a senior member of the engineering team, you'll make a direct impact through:

  • Designing, building, and operating core services and product features end to end, from data...

Read the full posting on Esper's site ↗

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