Software Engineer 3

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 its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with 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 power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use 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? of what we do here.

Job Summary:

The Software Engineer three role at Granicus is for developers early in their careers who are looking for a fun, supportive, and fast-paced environment to grow their skills and contribute code to production systems.

We are building a Platform Services team responsible for enabling cross-product integrations and simplifying third-party integrations across the organization.

This role is 70% hands-on backend engineering and 30% cross-team integration enablement, working closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and product teams to design scalable integration layers across legacy and modern systems.

All Granicus Software Engineers are expected to contribute to the broader Granicus technology organization in the deployment and support of these applications in higher environments.

What Your Impact Will Look Like:

Design and build modular, reusable platform services

Develop integration layers across legacy and modern APIs

Collaborate with product teams to understand data models and protocols

Translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions

Deliver features in sprint-based agile environment

Ensure maintainability, observability, and reliability of services

Maintain strong automated test coverage

Adapting Compliance and Security best practices.

Adapting AI on day to day routine tasks and deliverables.

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.

Interest in learning emerging technologies and programming languages

UX / UI Web designing (React / Angular / Vue).

You Will Love This Job If You Have:

4-6 years of proficiency experience

Ability to showcase eagerness to learn and adapt as per demanding timelines and deliverables

Backend Engineering (Primary)

Strong expertise in Node.js + TypeScript & python

Java (preferred but optional)

Experience building microservices-based architectures

RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and integration patterns

Database & Data Modeling

Strong RDBMS design experience:

MySQL / PostgreSQL

NoSQL experience (preferred but optional)MongoDB / DocumentDB

Schema design, indexing strategies, migrations, multi-tenancy

Query optimization and performance tuning

Engineering Fundamentals

Strong Git proficiency

Branching strategies

Code reviews / pull request workflows

Rebasing / conflict resolution

Modular architecture principles

DRY design patterns

API contract versioning

Cloud Engineering Foundations (Non-primary but preferred)

Docker

Kubernetes basics

CI/CD pipeline concepts

Environment configuration and deployment flows

Unit and integration testing best practices

Cross-Team & Communication Skills

Comfortable working in sprint-based agile environments

Ability to:

Work closely with POs, PMs and EMs

Understand legacy APIs and undocumented systems

Design clean integration layers

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have / Forward-Looking Skills

Understanding of:

LLM fundamentals

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

LangChain

Interest in learning emerging technologies and programming languages

About Us:

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. of our impact here.