What you'll do
- Deliver complex, high-impact features including versioning systems and approval workflows across the platform.
- Participate in architectural decisions and contribute to modularizing the core domain with ADRs.
- Collaborate in-person Monday-Thursday in the San Francisco office for high-bandwidth problem solving and deployment.
- Maintain a high bar for technical excellence through architectural code reviews and automated quality gates.
- Leverage AI-native tools like Cursor and Claude to optimize development and testing workflows.
What you should know
- This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in a collaborative, in-office environment and want to influence core architecture.
- Candidates should be comfortable working with ambiguous requirements and partnering closely with product managers.
- The position demands a security-minded engineer with strong defensive coding and authorization model knowledge.
- Applicants will engage with complex domain models and contribute to scalable, modular software design.
- Experience or interest in GovTech, compliance-heavy industries, and startup environments is highly valued.
About the company
- Authorium is a 43-person GovTech SaaS company focused on unifying complex government workflows for state and local agencies.
- They serve major agencies including California’s CDSS, CalPERS, and EDD, managing billions in public funds.
- The company is experiencing 45% year-over-year growth with a clear path to profitability by Q4 2026.
- Authorium values a collaborative, in-person culture especially in their San Francisco office for critical engineering work.
- They emphasize modernizing legacy government infrastructure with a unified data platform and AI-first engineering.
Key required skills
Ruby on RailsSystem designDatabase optimizationSecurityAutomated testing