GovSignals - Product Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years of full-stack engineering with a proven record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end. • Government or defense experience: building software for government users, working at a defense tech company, military service, or contracting work on either side of the table. • Strong frontend TypeScript skills with modern frameworks (Svelte/SvelteKit strongly preferred; React/Next.js acceptable). • Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience. You have designed schemas, written migrations, and optimized queries. • 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. • Nice to have: AI-first UX patterns, RAG pipelines, or AI agent architectures; experience in FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments; open-source work. • Clearance: not required. An active or previous clearance is a plus. • GovSignals was founded by four cofounders who lived with this problem from both sides (selling to the government and serving inside it) with backgrounds across the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, Palantir, Amazon, federal contractors building for missiles, and state contractors building for prisons. You'll work directly with all four. Other team members at GovSignals have shipped to defense companies, scaled venture-backed startups, and founded companies of their own. • Design by HI (Human Intelligence), Work by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Human Intelligence takes responsibility for what we build and how we communicate to customers. Artificial Intelligence does much of the building. We provide unlimited Claude and ChatGPT credits for reasonable use, and we expect you to come in with extensive AI experience. • Technical interview (1 hr): real-world inspired technical exercises. • Co-founder conversations (15 min): meet the cofounders. • Work trial (1 day): real work with the team.
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. • Work with the deployment team and directly with customers to understand where the product falls short, then decide what to do about it. • Our stack: Kubernetes, AWS GovCloud, Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, SvelteKit, TypeScript, Trigger.dev http://Trigger.dev, Postgres, UDS.
Benefits
• Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup • Benefits: medical, vision, and dental, unlimited PTO • Brooklyn Navy Yard office, 3+ days a week in person. The Yard built ships for the Navy from 1801 to 1966, now we build systems for Navy program offices.
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT