Kaizenlabs

Senior Software Engineer, Product

Full-time · New York, NY (Remote)
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Mid-level · 5+ yrs exp

Requirements

Experience: 5+ years

Skills & tools

Community RelationsTeam LeadershipCode ReviewReactJavascriptSQLProgrammingCloud Platforms
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What You'll Do

- Architect and ship full-stack features end-to-end, from scoping and technical design through build, iteration, and production

- Lead the development of AI-powered product surfaces: intelligent intake flows, real-time constituent assistants, automated case routing, agency operator dashboards

- Set technical direction and raise the bar on code quality. Your decisions become the patterns the rest of the team builds on

- Engage directly with federal agency stakeholders to translate messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product

- Own platform reliability and performance at government scale: real SLAs, real users, no abstraction layer between you and accountability

- Mentor earlier-career engineers through code review, pairing, and direct technical feedback

What You'll Bring

- 5+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex features and systems, not just executing on them

- Deep fluency in React / Next.js and Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres. Fast, not just functional

- AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) are already baked into how you work. You've shipped with them, and you move measurably faster because of it

- You've built something real: a product, an open source project, a system you designed and stood behind

- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you define the problem as often as you solve it, and you don't stall waiting for the answer to come to you

- A genuine orientation toward the end user, the person on the other side of the screen isn't an abstraction to you

Strong Candidates May Also...

- Have touched federal, state, or local government tech, or have built in other regulated, high-stakes environments where the constraints were real

- Have cloud deployment depth: AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, ECS/Fargate

- Have experience with design systems and component libraries and a clear opinion on when a component is right vs. just functional

- Have led technical work in an early-stage environment where the job was figuring it out, not following a playbook

What Kaizen Offers
Health & Insurance

- 100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam - all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.

- $100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.

- One Medical membership, on us - same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.

- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.

- 401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.

Family & Time Off

- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.

- Unlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)

- Closed for all federal holidays.

- Company-wide winter break the week of Christmas.

- Company offsites throughout the year.

Office & Remote Setup

- Up to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.

- $50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).

- Expensed lunch while in the office.

- Company-provided laptop of your choice.

Wellness

- Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse - right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). A $225/month value, on us. For remote employees, $100/month dedicated to gym or physical fitness reimbursement.

Stipends

- $100/month utility stipend.

- $500/year professional development.

- $250/year recreation.

- $300/quarter pet care stipend.

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