Software Engineer 4 - AI Native

Granicus provides cloud-based digital solutions that help government agencies communicate and engage with their constituents. The Software Engineer 4 - AI Native will direct coding agents on production workstreams, rigorously review agent-generated pull requests, author evaluation suites, and own software quality, security, performance, and accessibility within a FedRAMP-authorized environment.

Responsibilities

• Direct the agent array on production workstreams — decompose problems into tasks suitable for agent execution, dispatch them, and integrate the output into shipped software
• Review agent-generated pull requests at volume and at depth — identify correctness, security, and accessibility defects that automated tests do not catch, while maintaining review throughput and a consistent quality bar
• Author evaluation suites that make quality measurable — define criteria under which the pipeline validates correctness rather than relying on subjective assessment. Eval-driven development is your standard practice
• Own quality end to end — correctness, performance, security posture, and WCAG accessibility of the software your team ships, irrespective of which component or agent produced the initial implementation
• Advance workstreams along the autonomy ladder on the basis of evidence — move work from supervised to autonomous execution when measured reliability supports it, and revert promptly when it does not
• Strengthen the development lifecycle itself — identify where patterns, prompts, or pipeline components degrade at volume and work with the lead architect to remediate them
• Maintain agent operations within the security boundary — branch-only execution, vaulted credentials, sandboxed actions, and in-VPC inference. Throughput does not justify exceptions
• 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

Preferred

• **High-assurance or regulated experience.** Shipping within FedRAMP, defense, financial services, healthcare, or another NIST 800-53 / SOC 2 / HIPAA-bound environment
• **Depth in evaluation authoring or test-first development** within a rigorous engineering culture
• **Full-stack range,** sufficient to review front-end and back-end agent output with equal confidence
• **Public-sector or govtech experience** and familiarity with the relevant end users
• Regulated Industry Experience
• FedRAMP
• Defense Industry Experience
• Financial Services Experience
• Healthcare Industry Experience
• NIST 800-53
• SOC 2
• HIPAA
• Evaluation Authoring
• Test-First Development
• Full-Stack Development
• Front-End Development
• Back-End Development
• Public-Sector Experience
• Govtech Experience
• End-User Familiarity

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to rest, recharge, and live your life.
• Company-Wide Wellbeing Days – Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health.
• Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment.
• Multiple Health Plan Options – Including a 100% employer-paid plan.
• Employer HSA Contributions – When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan.
• Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way.
• On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
• Paid Parental Leave – For both birthing and non-birthing parents.
• Traditional & Roth 401(k) – With a generous company match.
• Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.
• Online Learning Platforms – Fuel your professional development.
• Competitive Salary & Bonuses – Your contributions are valued and rewarded.

Company

• Citizen experience platform for government communications and engagement
• Denver, Colorado, USA
• http://www.granicus.com/
• Founded in 1999
• 1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

• **Strong engineering fundamentals.** Data structures, systems design, and testing, with the ability to read unfamiliar code quickly and assess it accurately. Agents amplify engineering judgment; they do not substitute for it
• **A record of shipping production software you owned the quality of,** including responsibility for diagnosis and remediation when it failed
• **Hands-on experience directing coding agents on production work,** including their failure modes and the practice of reviewing agent-generated code critically rather than approving it by default
• **Demonstrated code-review competence.** You identify defects that automated tests do not catch, provide actionable feedback, and maintain a high bar without becoming a bottleneck
• **High autonomy.** You advance work without step-by-step direction and escalate issues proactively
• **High-assurance or regulated experience.** Shipping within FedRAMP, defense, financial services, healthcare, or another NIST 800-53 / SOC 2 / HIPAA-bound environment
• **Depth in evaluation authoring or test-first development** within a rigorous engineering culture
• **Full-stack range,** sufficient to review front-end and back-end agent output with equal confidence
• **Public-sector or govtech experience** and familiarity with the relevant end users

Required skills

• Code Review, Coding Agent Direction, Data Structures, Evaluation Suite Authoring, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, Production Software Development, Software Testing, Systems Design, Test-First Development, WCAG Accessibility

Preferred skills

• Actionable Feedback