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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!
About Govly
Govly is an Insight Partners and YC backed Series A high-growth startup that is modernizing and bringing AI to B2G workflows and operations. Our AI-powered market intelligence platform helps government contractors find, win, and collaborate on public sector opportunities. The Govly platform is trusted by leading OEMs, VARs, distributors, and prime contractors to navigate the complex world of government procurement. We are a fast-moving, innovative company, shipping new features at a rapid pace to keep our customers ahead of the curve. Recently, our models and AI tools have captured the attention of the US Army who awarded us a Direct to Phase II SBIR to build them an Agentic AI tool that dramatically accelerates their procurement process. We delivered our MVP last September (12 months ahead of schedule) and looking to secure a Phase III in the coming months and need to accelerate our expansion across the Federal Government.