Govdash
Senior Software Engineer (Search)
New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$190k-$220kDetected 177 days ago
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsBackend DevelopmentTemporalData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGCommunication
About the role
- You'll work on search infrastructure, recommendation engines, and data pipelines that power discovery across the platform.
- While you'll work across the stack, this role leans backend and emphasizes search systems, data engineering, and retrieval-augmented AI.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend services that power search, recommendations, and relevant data retrieval.
- Build and optimize data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and index large volumes of government and enterprise data.
- Create retrieval pipelines using embeddings to search and reason across thousands of documents.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering peers to deliver data-driven features.
- Own projects end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through deployment and iteration.
- Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across disciplines.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend development experience with TypeScript / Node.js.
- Experience with search systems, data pipelines, or recommendation engines.
- Comfort working with large, messy, real-world datasets.
- Strong CS fundamentals, sound architectural judgment, and experience scaling production systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with embeddings, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Background in data science, information retrieval, or recommendation systems.
- Experience with web scraping and data integration at scale.
- Familiarity with government contracting data or public-sector data sources.
- Engineers at GovDash Today
- Work with React (TypeScript), Node.js, Next.js, Temporal, and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Move with speed and urgency without sacrificing quality.
- Embrace hard problems and take pride in elegant solutions.
Compensation
- This role has a $190,000-$220,000 base salary range plus equity and is based in New York City.
Benefits
- This role has a $190,000-$220,000 base salary range plus equity and is based in New York City.
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