Senior Software Engineer

The Company 

Serving the People Who Serve the People 

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and their constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers by meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers powering an unmatched Subscriber Network that uses our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe. 

Want to know more? See more of what we do here.

The Senior Software Engineer role at Granicus is for developers who lead by example. They regularly take on challenging and complex technical tasks and consistently make significant contributions to all areas of the Granicus product suite. In addition to those contributions, the Senior Software Engineer is a key contributor when new features are being groomed and planned by their team. Their product and technical knowledge is indispensable in this area.

Senior Software Engineers have deep expertise in multiple different technologies and applications and proactively apply their knowledge improving the design, interface, and architecture of our products. They fully understand the deployment process and support our applications in all environments. They are an excellent mentor to groups and individuals within and outside of the engineering team.

What your impact will look like here:

• Collaborate with product management and business stakeholders to deliver SaaS based solutions.
• Communicate and work effectively with others to create great high-quality software.
• Proactively improve our processes and the design and architecture of our products.
• Drive innovation by coming up with new product ideas.
• Perform technology and feasibility studies
• Design solutions that are highly secure, performant, scalable and highly available.
• Come up with technical solutions to complex problems and push them through to implementation.
• Troubleshoot and fix production issues related to deployments, networking, configuration, databases, performance, stability, security, application logic, etc
• Help team members solve complex/urgent problems.
• Mentor and provide technical training to team members. Help train and onboard new hires.
• Champion the development team’s core values

You will love this job if you have:

• 5+ years of experience developing, testing, shipping, and supporting production-quality SaaS based web applications
• Expert-level knowledge web frameworks React, GraphQl, and Node.js. Strong experience developing unit tests, integration tests, E2E tests, load/stress tests
• Strong experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL)
• Strong experience with GCP – storage, queues, cache, etc
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with mentoring junior team members
• Commitment to quality and the craft of software development
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Passion for learning new things and the ability to do so quickly
• Ability to serve as a technical leader of an open, collaborative, and extraordinarily skilled software development team
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• SECURITY REQUIREMENT

Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.

The Process

- Assessment – Take a quick assessment.

- Phone screen – Speak to one of our talented recruiters to ensure this could be a fit.

- Coding – Take a quick coding test online.

- Hiring Manager/Panel interview – Talk to the hiring manager so they can learn more about you and you about Granicus. Meet more members on the team! Learn more and share more.

- Reference checks – Provide 2 references so we can hear about your awesomeness.

- Verbal offer – Let’s talk numbers, benefits, culture and answer any questions.

- Written offer – Sign a formal letter and get excited because we sure are!

Benefits at Granicus India

Along with the challenges of the job, Granicus offers employees an attractive benefits package which includes –

- Hospitalization Insurance Policy covering employees and their family members including parents

- All employees are covered under Personal Accident Insurance & Term Life Insurance policy

- All employees can avail annual health check facility 

- Eligible for reimbursement of telephone and internet expenses

- Wellness Allowance to avail health club memberships and/or access to physical fitness centres

- Wellbeing Wednesdays which includes 1x global Unplug Day and 2x No Meeting Days every quarter

- Memberships for ‘meditation and mindfulness ‘ apps including on-demand mental health support 24/7 

- Access to learning management system Say., Udemy Learning Premium account membership & many more

- Access to Rewards & recognition portal and quarterly recognition program

Don’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above? At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams. We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles. If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply. We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit! 

Security and Privacy Requirements

- Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.

- Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.

The Team

- We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture

- At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be

a part of our journey.

- A few culture highlights include – Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices

- Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and

sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs. 

- Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.-=- - We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee

population 

The Impact

- We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.

Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.