Product Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

New York City, NY · On-site · Full-time
Compensation: $190,000–$250,000 + competitive equity

About the Company

A Series B AI company building software for the U.S. government-contracting lifecycle — a single, secure, workflow-driven platform spanning opportunity discovery and capture, proposal execution, award, and post-award operations. The company has strong commercial traction (customers have collectively won billions in government contracts) and a talent-dense team drawn from leading technology and defense organizations.
Founded 2023 · 51–200 people · Industry: AI Tools

The Role

A full-stack product engineering role where you own features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems. You'll work directly with customers to understand their problems, ship frequently, and set technical direction within your product area. The engineering team operates without product managers — technical leads work directly with customers and have significant autonomy.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and ship full-stack product features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems
• Engage directly with customers to understand their problems and incorporate feedback into product improvements
• Set technical direction and patterns within your product area
• Build intuitive interfaces and APIs that help users understand and trust AI-powered workflows
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability as the platform grows

Tech stack: TypeScript (non-negotiable — the two-day live work trial is built entirely in it), Node.js, React, Next.js; Temporal a plus

Requirements

• NY-based, on-site, and a U.S. person who can legally handle ITAR/federal data
• 2–6 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally startup-heavy with founding or early-stage background followed by a Series A/B
• Strong full-stack engineer comfortable across React/Next.js frontends and Node.js backend service APIs, with TypeScript as a hard requirement
• Owns features end-to-end with real autonomy and can take a fuzzy customer problem and scope and ship it without hand-holding
• Product-minded and customer-facing engineer who obsesses over usability and builds interfaces that help users trust AI-powered workflows
• Sound engineering judgment with solid architectural instincts and a strong GitHub contribution history

Green Flags

• Exceptional GitHub activity (3,000-5,000 contributions/year pre-2024)
• Experience building AI-powered or LLM-enabled product features
• Experience with government contracting or public-sector software
• Experience with complex integrations and syncing with external systems
• Founding engineer or early-stage startup background
• Ex-athlete (especially D1 level)

Red Flags

• 3+ years at a single large company (Charles Schwab, BNY Mellon, etc.) without startup experience
• No TypeScript experience when coming through recruiter networks
• Cannot articulate ownership of fuzzy problems or scope projects independently
• Looking primarily for work-life balance or explicit work-hour boundaries
• Only experience at recent-era Stripe, Ramp, or Databricks hires (joined 1-2 years ago)
• Does not care about America and her interests

Why Join

• End-to-end ownership with real autonomy — engineering runs without product managers
• Mission-critical AI workflows with meaningful commercial traction
• Talent-dense team from leading technology and defense backgrounds

Details

• Location: New York City, NY
• Work policy: On-site
• Compensation: $190,000–$250,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship: None available — must be a U.S. person able to handle ITAR/federal data
• Employment type: Full-time