Senior Software Engineer, Product

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.