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# Software Engineer at GovEagle

- **Company:** GovEagle
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/GovEagle/15108e53-80a2-4b11-abf7-1ad0812a2027

## Job description

## Why We Need You

Over the past year, GovEagle has built strong product-market fit (5x revenue) and a customer base that uses us every day (10x DAU). Defense primes and top federal integrators run their RFP lifecycle on GovEagle inside FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud environments, working from our web app, Microsoft Word, and SharePoint. Every new enterprise rollout brings more users, more documents, and more integrations, and the platform has to scale with them. We are hiring an engineer to own real parts of that platform end to end: the features customers ask for, the integrations that connect GovEagle to their systems, and the reliability work that keeps it fast. You will work directly with the CTO on a small team that builds with AI every day.

## What You'll Do

- Ship product end to end. Take features from a customer conversation to production across our Python backend and React frontend, then see them through adoption.
- Own customer integrations. Build and harden the connections to SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and SSO that enterprise customers run on.
- Scale the AI platform. Profile and speed up long-running LLM pipelines, background workflows, and the data layer as usage grows.
- Make production boring. Take your turn on call, improve observability and alerting, and fix root causes so the same incident never happens twice.
- Build with AI, carefully. Use AI coding tools to ship fast, review teammates' code, and write short design docs before big changes.

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years building production software that real customers use; startup experience strongly preferred.
- Strong Python (FastAPI, async) and comfortable across the stack in TypeScript and React.
- Hands-on with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- You have debugged real production problems and can talk concretely about what broke and how you fixed it.
- AI-native: Claude Code, Cursor, or similar are part of how you build, and you know where not to trust them.
- Ownership: you see a gap, propose a fix, and ship it. You like talking to customers.
- U.S. citizen (required): you will work in FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud environments subject to export controls.
- Able to work in person in New York City four days a week.

Nice to have: AWS GovCloud or FedRAMP; Microsoft Graph and SharePoint APIs; Temporal; LLM or RAG systems in production.

## Our Stack

FastAPI and Python, Temporal, DocumentDB and Postgres, SpiceDB, Redis, Next.js and React with TypeScript, Microsoft Office add-ins, Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm, Grafana, AWS GovCloud, and models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. What success looks like in your first 90 days

- 30 days: Shipped your first customer-facing fix; on the on-call rotation; know how every customer integration works.
- 60 days: Own one major area end to end (for example SharePoint sync or document ingestion); written your first design doc.
- 90 days: Shipped a feature customers asked for, from spec to adoption, plus a measurable reliability or performance win.

## About GovEagle

GovEagle's AI platform helps government contractors win more work. Our AI agents dramatically reduce RFP response times by helping teams shred requirements, build compliance matrices, deliver exhaustive outlines, and draft compelling narratives. We're well capitalized ($10M from Y Combinator, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Sorenson Capital, and others) and based in NYC. Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); generous PTO. How we hire: a founder conversation, a 60-minute technical session in a small repo (bring your AI tools), and a half-day onsite with the team. About two weeks start to finish. Don't meet every qualification? Apply anyway; we value high-agency self-starters who love to learn.

## Why Join Us

- High ownership: we hire smart people and get out of the way.
- AI-native: get deep on the frontier of AI agents, in the product and in how we work.
- Customer love: work directly with customers who are getting real value.
- Team: we're in person in NYC. Here we are at the holiday party.

## About GovEagle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GovEagle is an AI-native platform that helps government contractors respond to federal Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in hours instead of weeks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator W23)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Gabe Villasana (CEO & Co-Founder) and Akash Mandavilli (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software for government contracting (GovCon)
- **Target customers**: B2B, targeting government contracting firms, defense contractors, and public sector proposal teams
- **Mission / Purpose Statement**: To become the Salesforce for government contractors — one platform to identify, respond to, and manage government proposals and awards. The company’s core insight is that “GovCon doesn’t have a writing problem. It has a continuity problem.”

## Products & Services
- **GovEagle Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-native platform that connects to a customer’s existing data (SharePoint, Salesforce, past proposals) and uses proprietary AI (no AI training on customer data) to automatically extract RFP requirements, evaluation criteria, and task areas. It generates compliant “pink-team” drafts in the customer’s voice and template, with full citations to source material. Supports Section L/M analysis, compliance matrices, and pink-team drafting.
- **Deployment Options**: Cloud, on-premise, or portable hardware. Offers FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent (NIST 800-53 compliant) and ITAR-ready capabilities (all engineers are U.S. persons).
- **Integration**: Works within Microsoft 365, designed to fit existing proposal workflows without requiring a process reset.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $3M raised (Seed round of $2.5M closed ~1 year ago, per CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W23 batch), Strategic Cyber Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Claims customers have seen an 80% reduction in proposal time and 50%+ increase in proposal throughput.
  - Customers have won over $1B in cumulative awards using the platform.
  - Team size of 25 employees (as of early 2025).
  - Actively hiring across Sales (SDR, Account Executive) and likely engineering roles (product designers and domain experts mentioned).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for GovCon**: Unlike generic AI writing tools, GovEagle is specifically trained for federal proposal workflows, including Section L/M analysis and compliance matrices.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent, NIST 800-533 compliance, ITAR-ready, and zero data retention/retraining by AI providers — addressing the strict security and compliance needs of defense and government work.
- **Contextual continuity**: The platform carries institutional knowledge from opportunity to opportunity, solving the “continuity problem” that plagues government contracting teams where key context lives in people’s heads rather than in reusable knowledge bases.
- **No process reset**: Integrates directly into existing Microsoft 365 workflows and proposal processes, minimizing change management friction.

## Strategic Focus
- Near-term: Expand customer base among government contractors and deepen the platform’s capabilities as a full lifecycle tool — from opportunity identification through proposal management to award management.
- Product direction: Moving beyond just proposal drafting toward becoming a comprehensive platform for the entire GovCon business development lifecycle (the “Salesforce for government contractors”).
- Continuing to hire for go-to-market roles (Sales, Customer Success) and engineering talent to scale the product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Small team (25 people) with “high ownership, concrete impact.” Described as a place where engineers, product designers, and domain experts do “meaningful work at the intersection of AI and federal contracting.” Team is hands-on from onboarding through ongoing use — “best-in-class support” is a core value.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Headquarters in New York, NY. Roles appear to be NYC-based, but exact policies (hybrid vs. in-office) should be confirmed during the interview process.
- **Notable Perks & Engineering Culture**:
  - Co-founders bring deep technical expertise: Gabe is a published ML researcher who built AI at Stripe, Lyft, and Amazon; Akash is a 2x founder with AI experience at Meta and federal sales at IBM.
  - Backed by Y Combinator (W23) and Strategic Cyber Ventures — combining startup velocity with deep government tech roots.
  - Focus on solving a high-impact, real-world problem: helping contractors win public sector work more efficiently and compliantly.
  - Likely early-stage equity, significant ownership, and a tight-knit team dynamic.

## Sources
1. [goveagle.com](https://www.goveagle.com/) — Official company website
2. [goveagle.com/about](https://www.goveagle.com/about) — About page (team, history, backers)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle) — Y Combinator company profile
4. [ycombinator.com/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle/jobs) — YC job listings
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/goveagle) — CB Insights company data

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