Product Engineer

About this role

GovSignals seeks a Product Engineer to own customer-facing product areas end-to-end, shipping features daily in a fast-paced startup building AI-powered government contract management. You'll work directly with founders, decompose ambiguous problems into shippable increments, and use AI pair-programming tools to accelerate delivery across a TypeScript full-stack.

What you'll do

• Own high-impact product areas and ship customer-facing features from whiteboard to production daily
• Rapidly iterate on UI, UX, and application logic based on user feedback and production data
• Decompose ambiguous product goals into clear engineering plans and measure outcomes
• Monitor production metrics, troubleshoot issues in real time, and ensure reliability of shipped features
• Use AI pair-programming tools to multiply productivity and drive team adoption
• Collaborate with design, founders, customers, and support to understand pain points and translate feedback into product decisions

What they're looking for

• Full-stack TypeScript (5+ years)
• Frontend: Svelte/SvelteKit or React/Next.js
• Postgres database design, migrations, and query optimization
• AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf)
• Systems design and architectural decision-making
• Problem decomposition and communicating tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
• CI/CD, automated testing, and production monitoring
• AI SDK integration, RAG pipelines, or AI agent architectures (nice to have)

Benefits

• Work directly with founding team of 4
• Own entire product areas end-to-end with significant autonomy
• Hybrid work (3+ days/week in New York office)
• Mission-critical government contracting product at scale
• Early-stage environment with rapid shipping and measurable user impact
• Access to FedRAMP High and IL5 compliance infrastructure