PRODUCT ENGINEERNew York, NY • Full-time • Hybrid (3+ days/week in office)
ABOUT THE ROLEWe're hiring multiple Product Engineers to expand our product engineering team. You'll work directly with the founding team and own entire customer-facing product areas end-to-end - from whiteboard to production.
The product is moving fast, and we need an engineer who can move faster. This is not a role where you sit in sprint planning for half the day and push tickets around a board, wait for detailed specs before writing code, or treat two-week sprints as the definition of fast. You'll plan, build, and ship features daily, own the reliability of what you ship - when something breaks at 9pm, you fix it because it's yours - and use AI pair-programming tools aggressively to multiply your output. This is a role for a builder who treats ambiguity as fuel, runs toward hard problems, ships under pressure, and measures their work in user impact, not lines of code.
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Take ownership of high-impact product areas and ship customer-facing improvements daily - from whiteboard to production.
- Rapidly iterate on UI, UX, and core application logic based on real user feedback and production data.
- Decompose ambiguous product goals into clear engineering plans, execute them, and measure outcomes.
- Use AI pair-programming tools to 5-10x your productivity, and push the team to do the same.
- Monitor production metrics, troubleshoot issues in real time, own the reliability of what you ship, and contribute to the platform architecture decisions that define how the product scales.
- Work closely with design, the founding team, customers, and CS to understand pain points, translate feedback into product decisions, and close the loop.
Our stack: TypeScript across the board - Svelte/SvelteKit on the frontend, Postgres on the backend, the AI SDK for model integration, deployed on Cloudflare Workers at the edge. We use Cursor and Claude Code, and expect you to as well.
WHAT YOU BRING- 5+ years of full-stack engineering with a proven record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end - real products to real users, not just features inside someone else's architecture.
- Strong frontend TypeScript skills with modern frameworks (Svelte/SvelteKit strongly preferred; React/Next.js acceptable).
- Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience - you've designed schemas, written migrations, and optimized queries.
- Daily, fluent use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf) as a genuine multiplier, not a novelty.
- Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into shippable increments and communicate tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where priorities shift and you own the outcome, plus experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.
Nice to have: experience with the AI SDK (Vercel AI SDK or similar), AI-first UX patterns, RAG pipelines, or AI agent architectures; a background in government contracting, the military, or the intelligence community; experience in FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments; open-source work.
THE TEAMGovSignals was founded by four cofounders who lived with this problem from both sides - selling to the government and serving inside it - with backgrounds across the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, Palantir, Amazon, federal contractors building for missiles, and state contractors building for prisons. You'll work directly with all four. The engineering team has shipped to defense companies, scaled venture-backed startups, and founded companies of their own.
HOW WE HIRE- Intro conversation (30 min) - your background and how you use AI tools.
- Technical interview (1 hr) - coding and systems design, without AI tools.
- Co-founder conversations (15 min) - meet the cofounders.
- Paid work trial (1 day) - real work with the team.
- Offer.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS- Base Salary: $180,000 - $250,000
- Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
- Benefits: medical, vision, and dental, unlimited PTO
- Brooklyn Navy Yard office, 3+ days a week in person. The Yard built ships for the Navy from 1801 to 1966, now we build systems for Navy program offices.
