GovDash · 20 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer (Search)
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$190K/yr - $220K/yr
3+ years expGovDash is an AI company helping businesses find, win, and manage government contracts. We are hiring a Software Engineer (Search) to build search, recommendation, and knowledge systems, focusing on backend development and data engineering.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySoftware
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Company
GovDash
GovDash is an autonomous AI platform that assists government contractors with capture, proposal development, contract management & more—in one place.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-03-22Pre Seed
Leadership Team
Sean Doherty
Co-Founder & CEO
Curtis Mason
Co-Founder
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