đź“ŤIn Person / Hybrid (Brooklyn, NY) đź’Ľ $170,000 - $190,000 + Equity
Holly is an AI-enabled platform specifically designed for the unique needs of city and local governments. Our technology helps cities and counties tackle critical challenges like workforce modernization, in order to build resilient teams.
Our platform is live across 7 states with 20+ jurisdictions representing over 2% of the US population—including major counties like Santa Clara and Contra Costa in the Bay Area, and Snohomish County in Washington State. We're getting overwhelmed by demand as cities and counties look to replace expensive consultants ($100K+ annually) and plan for a modern workforce.
We're built by former public servants and civic tech operators who met and incubated the company at Harvard Innovation Labs. We've raised $2.2M from leading investors in government technology and the future of work, including J2 Ventures, Roble Ventures, Gaingels, and prominent govtech founders and operators.
We center the people we serve in our decision making and strive to build an ambitious, dynamic, and high-performing environment. We care about creating an environment in which all our team members can thrive, succeed, and grow.
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join Holly as we scale the AI-powered platform helping local governments design and manage their workforce. You’ll be the second engineer on the team and will own major parts of our product and technical foundation.
This is a hands-on building role: you’ll design and ship end-to-end features in our Next.js + TypeScript stack, model complex government workforce data in Postgres, and build reliable pipelines that turn messy external inputs into trustworthy, usable product experiences. You’ll make pragmatic architecture decisions, raise the quality bar, and help us move fast without breaking things.
If you’re a senior engineer who wants real ownership - shipping end-to-end, making architecture calls, and setting the engineering bar as one of the earliest engineers - this role is for you. You’ll work directly with the founders, build core systems that will define the product for years, and have the autonomy to move fast while still building things the “right” way. If you’re excited by ambiguous problems, real-world workflows, and turning messy inputs into a product people rely on, we’d love to talk.
You’ll be a very early engineer at Holly and a core partner to the founding team—owning major parts of the product, making high-leverage technical decisions, and shipping features customers are actively asking for.