Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: United States

Compensation: $120K – $150K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

About Authorium

Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company transforming how government agencies manage administrative operations. Our platform replaces fragmented document management solutions and decades-old legacy systems with a unified user interaction and data layer that manages billions of dollars in public funds; serving state, local, and federal agencies that in turn support millions of citizens and businesses. Authorium sits at the intersection of modernization, public service, and technology innovation like AI-enabled workflows. Our team moves fast, collaborates across teams, and builds for impact.

About the Position

This is a foundational role for an engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and wants to accelerate their career by being "in the room" where our most complex architectural decisions are made.

You'll help tackle our most complex technical challenges, from modularizing our core domain to designing the next generation of our workflow engine. As a key contributor to the technical integrity of our platform, you'll ship mission-critical features and work closely with a high-caliber team to power our next major phase of expansion

What You Will Be Doing

• Shipping Core Features: Deliver complex, high-impact features across our platform—from building robust versioning systems to designing intricate approval workflows and permission models.

• Technical Evolution: Participate in architectural decisions that scale across multiple customer configurations. You’ll contribute to ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and help drive the modularization of our core domain.

• Engineering Craft: Uphold a high bar for technical excellence. You’ll engage in deep, architectural code reviews and contribute to the advancement of our automated quality gates.

• AI-Native Workflow: Leverage Cursor and Claude to offload boilerplate and focus on complex implementation. You’ll help refine our AI-first patterns—including agentic testing and automated reviews—ensuring the team operates at maximum leverage.

Requirements

Must Have

• 3+ years of professional full-stack experience. We value deep engineering fundamentals—system design, database optimization, and clean architecture—over fluency in any specific syntax.

• Systems Thinker: A demonstrated ability to understand and contribute to complex domain objects and data models in production environments.

• High-Agency: You don’t wait for a perfectly groomed ticket. You are comfortable partnering with product managers to turn ambiguous requirements into elegant technical specs.

• Security Minded: You treat security as a core engineering discipline. You have a strong working knowledge of defensive coding practices and the authorization models required to protect sensitive data.

• Quality Obsessed: A history of writing clean, maintainable code with comprehensive testing. You take pride in your PR history and believe that "done" includes documentation and observability.

Nice to Have

• Modern Frontend Experience: Familiarity with React and/or Next.js — we're actively evolving our frontend stack, and if React or Next.js is in your background, we want to hear about it.

• Ruby on Rails Proficiency: Strong knowledge of Rails conventions and an interest in (or experience with) modular monoliths.

• Complex Document Infrastructure: Experience with document generation (PDFs), rich text editors, or building systems to process unstructured data within secure workflows.

• Regulated Industry Experience: Previous work in compliance-heavy environments such as GovTech, FinTech, or HealthTech (FedRAMP, SOC 2, or HIPAA).

• Infrastructure Curiosity: Experience with or a strong desire to learn AWS infrastructure (ECS/EKS, CloudWatch) and modern deployment pipelines.

• Startup Veteran: Previous experience in a fast-growing startup ($5M–$30M ARR range) where you navigated rapid change and contributed to a scaling product.

Benefits

• Salary: $120,000 - $150,000

• Offers equity

• 100% benefits coverage for employee

• 401(k) plan

• Flexible PTO

• Home office stipend

• Comprehensive wellness benefits

• Commuter stipend for hybrid roles