GovDash — Product Engineer

Type: Full-time | On-site | New York City, NY Compensation: $190,000–$250,000 + Competitive Equity Hiring count: 1 Visa sponsorship: None available — candidate must be a U.S. person who can legally handle ITAR/federal data Reports to: Not specified (engineering team operates without product managers; technical leads work directly with customers)

About GovDash

GovDash helps businesses win and deliver government contracts that advance American interests. Its 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, GovDash customers won more than $5B in government contracts; the company has raised $42M to scale product and grow nationwide. The team includes engineers from Google, Lockheed Martin, and CACI, alongside veteran proposal managers and capture leaders.

Founded: 2023 | Team size: 51–200 | Total funding: $42M Industry: AI Tools (GovCon) Website: govdash.com Office: New York City, NY

Why Candidates Should Join

• End-to-end ownership, no PMs: Engineering runs without product managers — technical leads work directly with customers and own technical direction within their product area.
• Real traction in a hard market: Customers won $5B+ in government contracts in 2025; $42M raised, Series B.
• Mission with weight: Mission-critical AI workflows for government contractors, built by a talent-dense team from Google, Lockheed Martin, and CACI.

Intake Call Summary

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The Role

A full-stack product engineering role where you own features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems, work directly with customers to understand their problems, ship frequently, and set technical direction within your product area.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and ship full-stack product features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems
• Engage directly with customers to understand their problems and incorporate feedback into product improvements
• Set technical direction and patterns within your product area
• Build intuitive interfaces and APIs that help users understand and trust AI-powered workflows
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability as the platform grows

Tech stack: TypeScript (non-negotiable — the two-day live work trial is built entirely in it), Node.js, React, Next.js; Temporal a plus

Requirements

• NY-based, on-site, and a U.S. person who can legally handle ITAR/federal data
• 2–6 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally startup-heavy with founding or early-stage background followed by a Series A/B
• Strong full-stack engineer comfortable across React/Next.js frontends and Node.js backend service APIs, with TypeScript as a hard requirement
• Owns features end-to-end with real autonomy and can take a fuzzy customer problem and scope and ship it without hand-holding
• Product-minded and customer-facing engineer who obsesses over usability and builds interfaces that help users trust AI-powered workflows
• Sound engineering judgment with solid architectural instincts and a strong GitHub contribution history

Green Flags

• Exceptional GitHub activity (3,000-5,000 contributions/year pre-2024)
• Experience building AI-powered or LLM-enabled product features
• Experience with government contracting or public-sector software
• Experience with complex integrations and syncing with external systems
• Founding engineer or early-stage startup background
• Ex-athlete (especially D1 level)

Red Flags

• 3+ years at a single large company (Charles Schwab, BNY Mellon, etc.) without startup experience
• No TypeScript experience when coming through recruiter networks
• Cannot articulate ownership of fuzzy problems or scope projects independently
• Looking primarily for work-life balance or explicit work-hour boundaries
• Only experience at recent-era Stripe, Ramp, or Databricks hires (joined 1-2 years ago)
• Does not care about America and her interests

Role Details

Salary$190,000–$250,000EquityCompetitive equity (no percentage specified)On-site policyOn-site, NYC (required for in-person work and East Coast contractor time)Visa sponsorshipNone available — must be a U.S. person able to handle ITAR/federal dataEmployment typeFull-timeLocationNew York City, NY

Screening Questions

Contrario submission-form required Q&A:

1. LinkedIn Profile URL
2. Do you now or will you ever need H1-B Visa Support?

Interview Process

Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — Application Review — Resume and application reviewed. Stage 3 — Technical Screen — Technical screen. Stage 4 — Work Trial — Two-day live work trial, built entirely in TypeScript. Stage 5 — Offer — Offer extended. Stage 6 — Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.

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