Senior Product Engineer

Our Guideposts

Everything is possible

Prioritize action

Talk to users

Move fast

Be kind

Build things that people love

The Role

We are hiring a Senior Product Engineer to join our team of 8 engineers. As an early member of our engineering team, we need someone who is product-minded, driven, and comfortable working across the stack.

Your immediate focus will be building the best agentic AI experience for government procurement. We believe AI agents will fundamentally change how government buyers and contractors work, and we are building that product. You will work closely with the CTO to define and ship this vision.

Govly’s primary app runs on Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch. We use Claude Code and MCPs heavily in our development process.

This role will start as an individual contributor with end-to-end ownership. Team growth will be driven by results and business needs, not assumed on day one.

What You Might Work On

Build a world-class agentic AI experience for government procurement, from agent architecture to user-facing artifacts and workflows

Shape the direction of how AI is used across the product by bringing strong opinions on agent design, evaluation, and UX

Build AI agents that leverage our proprietary procurement data to autonomously generate documents, reports, and insights

Iterate on features that drive cross-organization collaboration on government opportunities

Extract, normalize, and aggregate data from thousands of government procurement sources

Find ways to tie opportunity data to publicly available award data

What You Will Do

Use a deep understanding of the problems our customers face to build software that people love

Drive end-to-end implementations of features: design data models, build APIs, implement frontend components, write tests

Utilize Claude Code and MCPs to augment your workflow

Write clean, readable code that balances quality, scalability, and speed of implementation

Work in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment

Push the quality of our agentic AI experience to compete with the best consumer AI products on the market

What You Are Expected to Be Excellent At

Getting things done quickly and using AI tools to move faster

Writing code across the stack (Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch)

Building with LLMs (prompt engineering, agent architectures, tool use, evaluation)

Shipping end-to-end features from data model to frontend

Making smart tradeoffs between quality, scalability, and speed

What We Are Looking For

A passion for programming and being at the intersection of product, design, and engineering

Strong product engineering background with a track record of shipping features end-to-end

Comfortable working across the stack, whether it is building APIs in Rails, writing SQL, extracting information with the help of an LLM, or driving out user-facing features in React

Experience building with LLMs and AI tools in production, with opinions on how to do it well

You are interested in and excited about staying at the forefront of AI and bringing those ideas back to the product

Thrive in a remote environment

Want to deeply understand our business and market and use that to help drive our product forward

Give and take constructive feedback well

Can define, articulate, and follow up on the KPIs of your work

Bonus

Experience with web scraping and data extraction at scale

Experience with government procurement or B2G markets

Experience with Elasticsearch or similar search infrastructure

Signals You Will Succeed Here

You have a get-it-done attitude and do not shy away from unglamorous work

You use AI tools like Claude Code daily and are always looking for ways to move faster

You obsess over making the product better, not just shipping tasks

You are comfortable with ambiguity and can turn a vague problem into a shipped feature

You have strong opinions about how AI products should work and are not afraid to challenge existing approaches

Why This Role Matters

Govly has product-market fit, differentiated data, and growing demand from federal customers. We believe the next phase of the company is building an agentic AI product that transforms how government procurement works. This role exists to build that product and to add engineering capacity to a team that is running lean. This is a core engineering role with direct impact on revenue and the future of the company.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan, with company match
• 15 days of accrued PTO per year + 2 week company Holiday break
• A truly exceptional opportunity to learn, grow, and make an outsized impact!