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# Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer at CivicMarketplace

- **Company:** CivicMarketplace
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/civicmarketplace/6fb707f8-efa2-497c-96ca-3fd4ad963929

## Job description

Join Civic Marketplace as Our Foundational Engineering Leader!

Are you passionate about technology's power to drive meaningful impact in communities? At Civic Marketplace, we're reimagining how local governments procure and deliver essential services, building the most intuitive and efficient procurement platform of the future.

Why Civic Marketplace?

We're a mission-driven startup on a journey to transform the way local governments operate—breaking down barriers, optimizing processes, and ultimately improving outcomes for residents. If you thrive on startup hustle and want to be part of a purpose-led team making real change, this opportunity is for you.

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re seeking our first engineering hire—a dynamic technical leader who is ready to own our technology from end to end. You'll drive our technical roadmap, manage and elevate our codebase, and build a high-performing team to meet our ambitious goals. You’ll be a cornerstone of our growing organization, with the freedom to shape our tech stack and strategy.

## About the role

- You drive great execution and are full-stack, comfortable in both leading and ‘owning’ code end to end. You will be our full-time lead engineer hire. You work with teams to enable execution including implementing appropriate processes, setting appropriate expectations, managing risks, managing resource allocation (aka managing the balance of scope/schedule/resources), and removing blockers.
- You develop a quality playbook for your teams and area(s) of ownership, including standards for pull requests, code reviews, testing, and monitoring. You are a direct contributor and don’t shirk away from coding, and happy also to delegate and hire where appropriate and are comfortable to work with freelancers.
- You are fluent in REACT, marketplaces, payment infrastructure, and hybrid approaches of custom, and no-code/low code app development
- You ensure the team owns the operation of data, systems, and apps in production. You drive resolution of critical issues, root cause analysis-driven actions.
- You drive hiring, motivation, growth with everyone in your team. You develop and calibrate a thorough understanding of employees’ motivations, strengths, and growth opportunities. You work to align opportunities for personal growth with prospective impact to the organization. You provide constant, real-time feedback to the team. You create a self-managing team.
- You ensure the team continuously improves. You establish goals and OKRs for the team and/or technical scope, set up processes to ensure we continually track and learn, and drive priorities to improve. You orchestrate improvement using root cause analyses, postmortems/retrospectives, and other processes.
- You cultivate a great culture where team members can do their best work. You promote ownership and accountability, high I/O, learning and teaching, good decision making, and a push for very high standards.
- You build relationships and are open to working with contractors and hiring where needed. You build, maintain, and invest in relationships inside and outside of the org, and ensure the team does the same. You promote transparency through regular updates on priorities and status.
- You ensure the team has clear goals, roadmaps, and priorities that are well informed by and socialized with partners and peers across the organization. You work end-to-end to ensure we minimize technical and functionality gaps between teams.

About You:

- You act with and teach appropriate urgency when the situation calls for it. You feel personally accountable and responsible. You look for problems and inefficiencies and find elegant solutions before they become major issues.
- You are high I/O, emotionally mature, and humble. You are a good, deep listener. Likewise, you share info proactively and effectively. You care about being effective over being right. You accept feedback willingly, seeking opposing points of view.
- You are an open-minded learner. You live to learn new things, like staying up to date on new technologies, tools, and techniques such as AI and no code and low code tools. You are inspired by what's possible as well as what people inside and outside the company know, and eager to incorporate the best. You experiment, challenge status quo, and take appropriate risks.
- You are a rapid learner that quickly ramps on new languages, frameworks, and systems.
- You are a systems thinker: you think end to end about how designs and changes affect the overall service, architecture, codebase, and users, and how it will evolve in the future.
- You understand and drive techniques for leading projects and improving productivity, raising the visibility of the team’s work within the organization..
- You are experienced with a variety of growth and leadership strategies, tactics, and scenarios.
- You are empathetic, happy when helping others succeed. You drive and facilitate clarity when there's ambiguity in what's needed.
- You invest; you make wise, informed decisions about where you invest your time and help the team determine how to best allocate their time. You mentor employees (on their team or across the organization), encouraging and guiding them in levelling up.
- Experience at least  5 or more years as a min. You're joining a small team of fewer than 3 very committed and excited engineers who will be excited to learn from you at this super critical time you'll be involved in growing and leading the team")

What's in for you?

- Influence, trust and impact inside a well funded startup that's scaling
- Work alongside other talented and friendly folk who are keen to learn and improve
- Competitive salary and meaningful stock options
- High impact role where you’ll have the autonomy to develop our platform quickly and make a meaningful contribution
- A a small bit about process (we'll start with a 30 minute chat, then have a couple of conversations (one technical, one non-technical) followed by a final chat with one of our founders, you'll get more details about this prior to interview).

Closing date - March 31st, 2025.

Please Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

## About CivicMarketplace

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Civic Marketplace is an AI-enabled procurement platform that streamlines purchasing for local governments by connecting them with pre-vetted, compliant vendors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $3.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Al Hleileh (Co-Founder & CEO) and Ron Holifield (Co-Founder & President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Government technology / Public procurement
- **Target customers**: Local and state government agencies, quasi-governmental entities, and non-profits providing governmental services (B2G)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Unlock local agency procurement through innovation … saving time and taxpayer dollars.”

## Products & Services
- **[Civic Marketplace Platform]**: An AI-powered marketplace that matches government agencies with proven, pre-approved vendors. Features include supplier discovery, comparison tools, quote management, compliance support, and contract award workflows. The platform leverages cooperative purchasing contracts from partners such as TXShare, Alliance for Innovation (AFI), and Michigan Municipal Services Authority (MMSA) to ensure legal compliance and speed.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $3.2M (Seed round closed November 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Kindred Capital; 10 institutional investors. Cooperative partners include TXShare (NCTCOG), AFI, MMSA, and others. Strategic partnerships with the Texas Police Chiefs Association and NIGP Business Council.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 83% year-over-year (to ~21–23 employees as of mid-2025). Launched the nation’s most comprehensive competitively bid AI contracts for local government (July 2025). Expanding internationally (offices in London, Estonia) and actively adding agency engagement and product roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Compliance by design**: All contracts are sourced through competitive, transparent procurement processes, giving agencies legal certainty.
- **Multi-cooperative network**: Partnership with multiple nationally recognized cooperative purchasing organizations broadens vendor access and geographic reach.
- **AI-enabled matching**: Uses data analytics and AI to connect agencies with the best-fit pre-vetted suppliers, reducing manual sourcing effort.
- **Focus on small & diverse suppliers**: Supports local economic development by including SMWB (small, minority, women-owned businesses).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding AI-driven procurement**: Recent launch of competitively awarded AI contracts signals a push to help governments adopt AI tools safely and compliantly.
- **Deepening public safety partnerships**: Strengthening ties with first responder organizations (e.g., Texas Police Chiefs Association).
- **Scaling platform adoption**: Growing agency engagement team and expanding into new states and countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work environment**: Flexible remote/office policy with periodic team retreats to foster collaboration.
- **Meaningful impact**: Work directly improves how communities access public services, with potential to “impact millions of citizens all across America and the globe.”
- **Competitive compensation**: Includes salary, health insurance, retirement plans, performance bonuses.
- **Growing team**: Fast-paced startup culture with opportunities for ownership and career growth across product, engineering, and customer success.
- **Diverse, mission-driven colleagues**: Team spans multiple countries (US, UK, Estonia, Germany, Zimbabwe) and draws talent from government, tech, and consulting backgrounds.

## Sources
1. [Civic Marketplace Careers](https://www.civicmarketplace.com/careers)
2. [Civic Marketplace – Help Center](https://www.civicmarketplace.com/help-center/articles/what-is-civic-marketplace)
3. [Civic Marketplace – LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/civicmarketplace)
4. [Civic Marketplace – Team Page](https://www.civicmarketplace.com/team)
5. [PitchBook Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/608848-84)

## Other roles at CivicMarketplace

- [Product Marketing & Community Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-community-manager-civicmarketplace-united-states-fy5k5rg84e3f) — United States
- [Small & HUB Business Engagement Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/small-hub-business-engagement-lead-civicmarketplace-dallas-7neeybm02z5m) — Dallas, TX