Staff Software Engineer

Join OpenGov, a mission-driven company focused on improving government operations. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Community Intelligence team, you will design and build systems that integrate physical-world sensing and AI-based detection into our Community Operations suite. You will have the opportunity to make real technical decisions, evaluate emerging technologies, and set patterns for the rest of the team. This position offers unlimited vacation, world-class healthcare, and the ability to work from anywhere.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that turn raw sensor data into structured records, condition assessments, and automated workflows across multiple products.
• Architect the automated detection-to-case pipeline that turns a sensing detection into a properly routed record in the right product's workflow engine.
• Establish patterns, like the connector/adapter approach, that other engineers and products reuse, elevating the work of the broader team.
• Proficient in AI-native engineering workflows: can direct AI tooling for scaffolding, test generation, and code review while retaining ownership of architecture and correctness
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information and ambiguous vendor integration paths; makes and defends build-vs-integrate calls
• Experience building or integrating computer-vision, LiDAR, or geospatial data-processing pipelines; comfort with point-cloud or 3D spatial data is a strong plus
• Experience with geospatial systems (PostGIS, spatial indexing, coordinate reference systems) preferred

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex, cross-system integrations end-to-end in a production SaaS environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Excellent written communication; can produce technical design docs that align stakeholders across five product teams
• A track record of shipping systems where data accuracy carries real compliance or safety consequences (regulatory, infrastructure, or public-sector systems) is a strong plus
• Strong data-modeling and API/connector design skills, able to reconcile a third party's data schema against multiple existing internal data models without resorting to one-off custom logic
• Experience partnering across multiple product teams and translating a strategic technical vision into a scoped, sequenced delivery plan

Pay

USD 205,000 - 227,000