Founding Data Analyst

🏛️ About GovWell

GovWell builds software that helps government serve communities better. We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve efficient government — but the software powering government services is 20 years behind. Founded in 2023, GovWell now powers critical services for municipalities and counties in 18 states serving 700,000+ residents. GovWell has raised $5.5 million from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital. Read about us in TechCrunch.

📜 Founding Story

Our mission is deeply personal for us. Ben Cohen, CTO and Co-Founder grew up helping his father — a general contractor — to apply for hundreds of construction permits. Ben’s experiences navigating clunky government websites inspired him to build better solutions for the millions of tradespeople whose livelihoods depend on getting permits fast. Prior to founding GovWell, Ben worked for Uber and Amazon as a Software Engineer, and earned his AB in Computer Science summa cum laude from Princeton.

Troy LeCaire, CEO and Co-Founder, was previously the first employee and Chief of Staff to the CEO at RippleMatch, a software startup, helping it grow from $0 to $10M in annual revenue and a $200M valuation. Before RippleMatch, he worked for two U.S. senators from his home state of Wisconsin. Troy earned his BA in Government magna cum laude from Cornell.

🎥 Video: More about the Founding Data Analyst role at GovWell

☀️ Why GovWell?

• Impact at scale: Every feature you ship directly improves government services for hundreds of thousands of residents. From permitting small businesses to accelerating affordable housing developments, your work will make an immediate difference.

• A mission that matters: Fixing outdated government systems isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s a chance to improve lives. Your contributions will help governments work better for people who rely on them every day.

• A front-row seat to a startup in hyper-growth: As an early team member, you’ll learn what it takes to scale a company from the ground up. You’ll work closely with the founders, shape the culture, and leave your fingerprints on the product.

🧮 Challenges GovWell is solving

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• Building a workflow management system that is powerful and easy to use, but flexible enough to accommodate the unique processes of 80,000+ government agencies in the United States (think: Salesforce for governments). Today, GovWell is used to process permit and license applications for everything from new affordable housing developments to small business licenses.

• Enabling a Figma-style document review experience that helps governments easily collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents such as building and development plans.

• Developing a flexible and powerful document generation system to automatically generate official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of unique processes (think: Canva for documents).

• Creating a payments experience that makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in annual permit/license fees, property taxes, and utility bills online.

👥 Meet the Engineering Team!

1. Meet Amy Wang, engineer #4 and owner of data engineering and data migrations.

2. Meet Will Henderson-Frost, engineer #1 and owner of our backend service.

3. Meet Eric Gratta, engineer #2 and owner of our frontend repository.

4. Meet Nick Vollmar, engineer #3 and owner of everything DevOps and infrastructure.

⚒️ Responsibilities & primary tasks

• Collaborate with customers, customer success managers, and data engineers to understand unique data requirements, troubleshoot issues, and communicate progress in a clear and professional manner.

• Analyze and validate customer data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and readiness for migration into GovWell.

• Develop a repeatable playbook for performing data discovery, cleaning, and transformation across diverse customer datasets, enabling faster and more efficient migrations.

• Implement quality assurance processes by designing and running programmatic tests to validate the integrity of data migrations and prevent future issues.

• Continuously improve migration processes by identifying bottlenecks, proposing optimizations, and exploring opportunities to automate repetitive tasks.

🧠 Who You Are

• 1-2+ years of experience in data analysis or data migration, ideally within a SaaS or B2B environment.

• Familiarity with Python or a similar programming language for automating data analysis tasks

• Fluent in writing analytical SQL and can write complex queries to transform, filter, and manipulate customer data.

• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to perform complex data analysis, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and automation using macros or Power Query for data transformation.

• Proven experience working with large, complex datasets and executing data cleaning, transformation, and validation tasks.

• Comfort working with data from various sources and understanding of data mapping principles.

• Ability to communicate technical data issues to non-technical stakeholders clearly and effectively.

• Comfort working in a customer-facing role, with a history of collaborating directly with clients to resolve data-related challenges.

🖥️ Our Tech Stack

• Airflow to execute data migration jobs

• RedwoodJS as our fullstack framework provides a modern, integrated development experience.

• React and TypeScript power our front-end, enabling seamless user interfaces and strong type safety.

• TypeScript and Node.js drive our back-end, delivering scalability and performance.

• GraphQL connects our front-end and back-end, facilitating efficient, flexible data communication.

• AWS to power our infrastructure

• PostgreSQL to run our database

💸 Salary and benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include:

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• Up to 100% of premiums paid by GovWell for medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself + partner

• Unlimited / flexible PTO

• 401(k) program

GovWell is an Equal Opportunity Employer, meaning that we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected class.