Senior Software Engineer (Search)

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 including de-duping, merging, cleaning, and structuring data
• Own projects end-to-end from technical design through deployment and iteration

Requirements

• 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 and experience scaling production systems
• Self-starter with an ownership mentality

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience building LLM-powered search or knowledge applications

About the Company

GovDash helps businesses win and deliver government contracts that advance American interests through an AI platform that manages the full contracting lifecycle.