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 confusing 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 an excellent Product Engineer to join our team of 7 (PM, Designer, 4 Engineers). We're growing rapidly and just closed our Series A, led by a major VC. 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).

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 out a new freemium version of our product that facilitates product-led growth

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Use a deep understanding 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
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 more than 5 years of experience building products that people love
Have a passion for programming and being at the intersection of product, design, and engineering
Love Ruby and/or Javascript
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 - 230k) and equity compensation (0.05% - 1%)
The above is based on experience and market data provided by pave.com
Fully remote
Minimum PTO of 15 days
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 we can add it

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