Job Description
Holly is the HR platform built for city and county government. We help local governments modernize how they hire, classify, and manage their workforce - work that directly shapes public services for millions of people. Our platform is live across 8 states with 35+ jurisdictions representing nearly 5% of the US population, including major counties like Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Orange County, and Snohomish. Demand is outpacing our team, and we're building to meet it. Holly is a 15-person team with deep roots in public service, civic / gov tech, and AI, backed by $2.2M from leading investors in government technology and the future of work, including J2 Ventures, Roble Ventures, and Gaingels. We build for the people we serve, centering public servants and impact in every decision, and we bring that same care to how we work here at Holly. About the role 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 fifth 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" w