Product Engineer

GovSignals•New York, NY

3d•$180,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We're hiring multiple Product Engineers to expand our product engineering team. You'll work directly with the founding team and own entire customer-facing product areas end-to-end — from whiteboard to production. The product is moving fast, and we need an engineer who can move faster. This is not a role where you sit in sprint planning for half the day and push tickets around a board, wait for detailed specs before writing code, or treat two-week sprints as the definition of fast. You'll plan, build, and ship features daily, own the reliability of what you ship — when something breaks at 9pm, you fix it because it's yours — and use AI pair-programming tools aggressively to multiply your output. This is a role for a builder who treats ambiguity as fuel, runs toward hard problems, ships under pressure, and measures their work in user impact, not lines of code.

Requirements

5+ years of full-stack engineering with a proven record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end — real products to real users, not just features inside someone else's architecture.
Strong frontend TypeScript skills with modern frameworks (Svelte/SvelteKit strongly preferred; React/Next.js acceptable).
Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience — you've designed schemas, written migrations, and optimized queries.
Daily, fluent use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf) as a genuine multiplier, not a novelty.
Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into shippable increments and communicate tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where priorities shift and you own the outcome, plus experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.

Nice To Haves

experience with the AI SDK (Vercel AI SDK or similar), AI-first UX patterns, RAG pipelines, or AI agent architectures
a background in government contracting, the military, or the intelligence community
experience in FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments
open-source work

Responsibilities

Take ownership of high-impact product areas and ship customer-facing improvements daily — from whiteboard to production.
Rapidly iterate on UI, UX, and core application logic based on real user feedback and production data.
Decompose ambiguous product goals into clear engineering plans, execute them, and measure outcomes.
Use AI pair-programming tools to 5–10x your productivity, and push the team to do the same.
Monitor production metrics, troubleshoot issues in real time, own the reliability of what you ship, and contribute to the platform architecture decisions that define how the product scales.
Work closely with design, the founding team, customers, and CS to understand pain points, translate feedback into product decisions, and close the loop.