# Senior Software Engineer, Payments at GovWell

- Company: GovWell
- What the company does: Municipal and county governments in 40+ states use GovWell's AI operating system to deliver better services, work smarter, and build public trust. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://govwell.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/govwell/4d5a429f-5d8c-42b4-a39a-6f1c7868b648
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/govwell-senior-software-engineer-payments/

## About the role

Payments infrastructure for local government is a genuinely hard problem — real money, strict audit requirements, dozens of different fee types and collection methods, all running underneath workflows that can't afford to break. It's also a problem that's specific to how municipalities and counties actually operate, not something you can bolt on from a generic payments product.

## What they're looking for

- Experience designing financial or transactional systems where correctness isn't optional — payments, billing, ledgers, or similar domains where an unbalanced number is a real problem, not a bug ticket
- You have real opinions about how a payments system should be architected, and you want a role where you can bring them, not just implement someone else's spec
- Comfortable with ambiguity at the domain-design level: this isn't "build this feature," it's "help decide what the right abstraction is," and you find that exciting rather than uncomfortable
- Experience with idempotency, webhooks, and payment processor integrations (Stripe, Finix, or similar) is a strong plus
- You think in terms of invariants and edge cases — what happens when a webhook fires twice, when a fee schedule changes mid-invoice, when a refund needs to partially reverse a payment that's already been partially paid
- You're excited to work with the latest AI models, both in the product and in your own development workflow

Tags: Product & Engineering