When a city switches to GovWell, one thing has to go right before anything else can: their data. A decade of permits, parcels, inspections, and license records — often living in a 2009 Access database, a folder of CSVs, or a legacy system with no documentation — has to land in GovWell accurately. If it doesn’t, our relationship with a new client is off to a bumpy start.
As a Data Solutions Engineer, you own that moment. You’ll take whatever a city hands you — messy exports, inconsistent codes, half-mapped schemas, geospatial data of questionable quality — and turn it into clean, trusted production data. That means writing SQL/Python that finds the edge cases before they find you, leading calls with non-technical government staff, and making judgment calls on messy data that you’d stake the launch on.
You’ll report directly to Ben Cohen (Co-Founder & CTO) and work across Deployment, Product, and Engineering — with real influence over how GovWell’s onboarding process matures as we scale.
We have a hybrid work culture that combines regular in-person collaboration at our New York City office (3+ days per week) with flexibility to work remotely.