Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Search)

GovDash is seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer focused on search to help build GovDash's search, recommendation, and knowledge systems from the ground up. You’ll own backend services and data pipelines at scale, working with embeddings and retrieval-augmented AI to help users discover relevant government and enterprise documents. This role emphasizes data engineering, search infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering to ship impactful, data-driven features.

What youll do

• 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, including de-duping, merging, cleaning, and structuring data.
• 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.

What GovDash is looking for

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience building search systems, data pipelines, or recommendation systems.
• Background in data science, information retrieval, or recommendation systems.
• Experience with embeddings, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Experience working with large, messy, real-world datasets.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
• US Person according to ITAR.
• Advanced degree or strong fundamentals in machine learning or a related field.