Senior Software Engineer (Search)

What You'll Do

• 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.
• Solve entity resolution challenges across messy, real-world datasets: de-duping, merging, cleaning, validating, and structuring data for downstream use.
• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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.
• Self‑starter with an ownership mentality who thrives in a fast‑paced startup environment.
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across disciplines.

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.
• Experience building LLM-powered search or knowledge applications.

Engineers at GovDash Today

• Work with React (TypeScript), Node.js, Next.js, Temporal, and modern cloud infrastructure.

Compensation

$190,000-$220,000 base salary plus equity.