Senior Engineer

The federal government spends over $700 billion a year hiring private companies to do critical work, from staffing veterans’ hospitals and maintaining military bases to supporting federal logistics and IT. Many of those contracts legally require employers to set aside money for employee benefits, earned hour by hour. Today most of that is managed through spreadsheets, disconnected vendors, and compliance rules that are nearly impossible to navigate — so employers overspend and risk audits, and workers end up with benefits they can't use or never fully access.

CVRD is building the modern infrastructure for this market. Our platform helps employers track benefit dollars in real time, stay compliant, and manage healthcare, retirement, payroll, and reporting in one place, turning a complex, high-stakes system into software that actually works.

Location: Miami, FL preferred (Hybrid possible)

‍Employment: Full-time preferred, contract-to-hire considered for exceptional candidates

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a hands-on role focused on building, improving and scaling our platform.

Experience in payroll, employee benefits, HRIS or similar business-critical software is highly desirable. If you've built complex SaaS products with challenging workflows, compliance requirements or business logic, we'd love to hear from you.

• This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend most of your time building software that delivers real customer value.
• Build new product features across our platform
• Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of existing systems
• Collaborate with Product to refine technical solutions
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews and help raise engineering standards
• Identify and solve technical problems before they become customer problems
• Help improve our automated testing and deployment processes

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend most of your time building software that delivers real customer value.

Must-haves

• 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Claude Code/Codex/or similar evangelist. You need to be able to manage it for optimum output efficiency and accuracy. 
• Experience working with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks e.g. Playwright Experience building scalable web applications
• Strong API design and integration experience
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

Domain Experience

We believe that domain expertise is vital to getting the most out of coding agents. Experience in one or more of:

• Payroll
• Employee benefits
• HRIS
• Financial software
• Healthcare technology
• Compliance-heavy SaaS products
• Enterprise workflow systems

We strongly prefer candidates with payroll/employee benefits experience.

Our Tech Stack

• PHP, but a longer term ambition to move to a different ecosystem
• React
• AWSDocker
• GitHub Actions
• Playwright
• Claude

• You are curious, quick, and detail-oriented. You want to understand how things work, not just close tickets. You ask good questions, take feedback well, and get better fast.
• You do not need a huge team or layers of process to stay motivated. You like being close to the product, the users, and the people making decisions. You care about quality, but you also know how to keep moving.
• You are early in your career, but you are serious about becoming great.

• Small, ambitious engineering team with real ownership over what you build
• Work directly with the engineering and product leaders shaping the company
• High-trust, low-bureaucracy — you'll spend your time building, not navigating approval chains
• Ship business-critical software (payroll, benefits) that real companies depend on to operate
• Help define engineering standards and how the team uses tools like Claude Code
• See your work reach customers directly at a fast-growing health tech company

We're an early-stage, venture-backed company building the operating system for the people side of government contracting. We move quickly, care deeply about the workers our customers employ, and hold ourselves to a high standard. 

We're building something ambitious, and that requires people who are curious, accountable, and excited to solve hard problems. If you enjoy creating order from complexity, improving systems, and helping shape how a company grows, we'd love to hear from you.