Senior Software Engineer (Search)

GovDash • New York, NY

3d • $190,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

GovDash helps businesses win and deliver government contracts that advance American interests. Our AI platform is a single, secure, workflow-driven system for the full contracting lifecycle, from opportunity discovery and capture through proposal execution, award, and post-award operations. In 2025 alone, GovDash customers won more than $5B in government contracts. We’ve raised $42M to move faster on product and scale GovDash nationwide. About the Role We're hiring a Software Engineer (Search) to help build GovDash's search, recommendation, and knowledge systems. This role is for engineers who enjoy working with data at scale, building intelligent retrieval pipelines, and creating systems that help users find exactly what they need across massive document sets. You'll work on search infrastructure, recommendation engines, and data pipelines that power discovery across the platform. While you'll work across the stack, this role leans backend and emphasizes search systems, data engineering, and retrieval-augmented AI . This role has a $190,000-$220,000 base salary range plus equity and is based in New York City.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development experience with TypeScript / Node.js
• Experience with search systems, data pipelines, or recommendation engines.
• Comfort working with large, messy, real-world datasets.
• Strong CS fundamentals, sound architectural judgment, and experience scaling production systems.
• Self‑starter with an ownership mentality who thrives in a fast‑paced startup environment.
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across disciplines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with embeddings, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Background in data science, information retrieval, or recommendation systems.
• Experience with web scraping and data integration at scale.
• Familiarity with government contracting data or public-sector data sources.
• Experience building LLM-powered search or knowledge applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend services that power search, recommendations, and relevant data retrieval.
• Build and optimize data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and index large volumes of government and enterprise data.
• Create retrieval pipelines using embeddings to search and reason across thousands of documents.
• Solve entity resolution challenges across messy, real-world datasets: de-duping, merging, cleaning, validating, and structuring data for downstream use.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering peers to deliver data-driven features.
• Own projects end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through deployment and iteration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees