Product Engineer

ABOUT GOVLY

Govly is building the market network for B2G procurement - where government prime contractors, manufacturers, resellers, and distributors collaborate on opportunities to sell to the government. This network brings transparency, consistency, and the ability to communicate in the complex world of government contracts.

WHY WE WORK

We believe that creating a simple, transparent, and competitive public procurement system is critical to public sector efficacy and societal advancement.

OUR GUIDEPOSTS

• Everything is possible
• Prioritize action
• Talk to users
• Move fast
• Be kind
• Build things that people love

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a handful of excellent Product Engineers to join our team of 8 (Designer, 7 Engineers). As an early member of our engineering team, we need someone who is product-minded, driven, and comfortable working across the stack.

Govly’s primary app runs on Ruby/Rails , Javascript/React , Postgres , Redis , and Elasticsearch . We also run a bunch of Node services that handle web automation using PlaywrightJS and CheerioJS (driven by crawlee.dev ). We use AI and LLMs heavily in both our development process and throughout the product.

WHAT YOU MIGHT WORK ON

• Iterate on features that drive cross-organization collaboration on government opportunities
• Build an AI agent that can autonomously crawl thousands of different websites
• Extract, normalize, and aggregate data from 20,000+ state and local government contracts
• Find a way to tie opportunity data to publicly available award data
• Build AI agents and tools that leverage our internal data to give custom insights and reports

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, analyze user interactions and propose changes based on the data
• 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

YOU’RE THE IDEAL FIT IF YOU

• Have a passion for programming and being at the intersection of product, design, and engineering
• Love Ruby and/or Javascript
• You are interested in and excited about staying at the forefront of AI
• 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
• Are comfortable working across the stack whether it’s building a new API in Rails, generating reports from large amounts of data using SQL, extracting information with the help of an LLM, or driving out user-facing features in React
• Can define, articulate, and follow up on the KPIs of your work

SALARY, EQUITY & BENEFITS

• The opportunity to have a massive impact on the future of our company and mission
• Highly competitive salary (100k - 240k) and equity compensation (0.05% - 1%)
  The above is based on experience and market data provided by pave.com
• Fully remote
• 4 weeks PTO
• Home office stipend
• All the standard benefits (health, dental, 401k, FSA). If you want or had something at a previous company that we don’t have, let us know and let's discuss