# Product Engineer (Forward Deployed)
**Company:** [Govsignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/govsignals)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $180K-$250K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Svelte, Sveltekit, Postgres, Cloudflare Workers, Ai Sdk, Cursor, Claude Code, React, Next.js, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-09-20
> Forward-deployed product engineer owning end-to-end customer-facing features in a fast-paced GovTech AI startup. Builds across TypeScript full-stack (Svelte/SvelteKit frontend, Postgres backend, Cloudflare), uses AI tools like Cursor daily, ships daily based on user feedback. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of high-impact product areas and ship improvements daily
- 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
- Build and maintain TypeScript codebases across frontend (Svelte/SvelteKit), backend (Postgres, auth, edge logic), and infrastructure (Cloudflare Workers)
- Use AI pair-programming tools to 5–10x your productivity
- Collaborate directly with design, product, and the founding team to shape what gets built and why
- Monitor production metrics, troubleshoot issues in real time, and own the reliability of what you ship
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions that will define how the product scales
- Work closely with customers and CS to understand pain points, translate feedback into product decisions, and close the loop

## Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering with a proven record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end
- Strong frontend TypeScript skills with modern frameworks (**Svelte/SvelteKit** strongly preferred; React/Next.js acceptable)
- Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience (designed schemas, written migrations, optimized queries)
- Proficiency with AI coding assistants (**Cursor**, **Claude Code**, Windsurf)—daily use
- 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
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring

## Bonus
- Experience with **AI SDK** (Vercel AI SDK or similar), AI-first UX patterns, RAG pipelines, AI agent architectures, or government/GovTech data

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: **$180,000 - $250,000**
- Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
- Benefits: 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental (Bronze coverage)
- Unlimited PTO
- Direct access to the founding team and end-to-end ownership from day one
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