Software Engineer

GovDash•New York, NY

2d•$160,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

GovDash is hiring a Software Engineer to build and improve Dash, its AI platform for the government-contracting lifecycle. The role involves shipping customer-facing features from design through production, using customer insight to guide priorities, and developing AI agents and autonomous workflows with verification, traceability, and observability. Engineers also improve the company’s model harness, coding agents, and infrastructure. The engineering team works with demanding security and compliance requirements, including FedRAMP-certified, ITAR-supporting, and customer-hosted environments. The role may contribute to Capture, Proposal, Contract, Platform, or Data Library products. The primary application uses TypeScript and Effect, React and Next.js, with Rust in some infrastructure. Other technologies include Prisma, tRPC, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, and models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The position is based in the Flatiron office four days per week, with one flexible work-from-home day.

Requirements

Demonstrate high agency by identifying and fixing problems without being asked.
Have a bias toward action and work with urgency.
Bring effort and drive, and care about the work.
Care about America and its interests.

Nice To Haves

Have shipped work that can be reviewed, such as open-source projects, side projects, a portfolio, or a publicly launched product.
Have written an evaluation, compared models, or built with coding agents.
Have automated a workflow previously performed by a person and be able to show how its effectiveness was verified.
Have deep specialization in areas such as evaluations, infrastructure, testing, or systems.
Have owned a large part of a product or made high-impact contributions across multiple product areas.
Have been a technical lead, succeeded at a startup similar to GovDash, worked with a similar technology stack, or written code at big-tech scale.
Have strong, defensible opinions on technical design and product direction.
Be fully self-directed; the role may involve leading other engineers.

Responsibilities

Ship features customers use every day, from design through production.
Talk to customers and use their insights to guide prioritization and decision-making.
Build agents that call tools, cite their sources, and show their work.
Write evaluations and verify outputs that may not have clear-cut answers.
Automate manual workflows with verification, traceability, and observability built in.
Improve the company’s model harness, coding agents, infrastructure, and engineering processes.
Contribute to product areas including Capture, Proposal, Contract, Platform, and Data Library.