Full Stack Engineer (Remote, USA)

COMPANY MISSION: Our mission is to remove friction from selling to the public sector. Pursuit transforms how trillions in public-sector contracts are sought and awarded. We believe the best contractors should win contracts, not just the ones who are most deeply embedded. Pursuit AI scans millions of pages to identify opportunities for companies selling to the public sector. Our customers are companies who sell to the public sector, and we’re selling more pipeline, revenue, and productivity to the GTM organization. OUR CULTURE: At Pursuit, being a Pursuiter means doing work that actually matters—improving government for every citizen. We’re an AI-first, top-investor-backed team that moves with urgency, thinks critically, and runs directly at conflict because the best ideas come from uncomfortable conversations. There’s no daylight between our customers’ success and ours, so you’ll own high-impact projects that redefine public-sector engagement while working at the intersection of AI and growth. We’re accountable to each other, ship fast (check our seasonal releases), and grow in dog years. We’re remote-first but gather regularly for company offsites because Zoom bonding only goes so far, and some of our best ideas happen over tacos in Mexico or wherever we land next. If you want to build something genuinely innovative while simplifying what others overcomplicate, you’ve found your people! OUR VALUES: Our values define how we work, innovate, and connect with our customers and partners. - Customer Focus: There is no daylight between our customers’ success and our own success. - Critical Thinking: Break issues down into their atomic units. Focus on what matters; simplify. What’s right, not who’s right. Be honest with yourself. We openly acknowledge when we’re wrong, and improve. - Act with Urgency: Do it now. Shorten cycle times. If a decision is reversible, be 51% sure and pick one. - Run at Conflict: We’re comfortable having uncomfortable conversations; we disagree with ideas while respecting the humans. - Accountability: We do what we say and give our maximum effort, and we expect that from everyone on our team. How we do one thing is how we do anything. - Think Long Term: Choose the best answer in the long run. Do not take shortcuts. WHO YOU ARE: We’re hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our early engineering team and build the AI behind Pursuit’s contact and entity intelligence: who’s buying, who’s deciding, and what they need, pulled from millions of public documents. You’ll work directly with our CEO and CTO, get close to customers, and own problems end to end. You’ve shipped production software for 3+ years, and you know that asking the right question matters more than rushing to the right answer. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Understand the Problem First - Work closely with our team and customers to understand exactly what problem we’re solving. Asking the right question matters more than getting the right answer. - Work directly with our CEO and CTO, and build direct relationships with the customers who use what you build. Own the Outcome - Own outcomes, not tasks. You’ll pick the bet with us, ship it, and measure whether it moved anything for customers. “Done” means it’s in use and we know whether it worked. - Do what you say. Set your own time budgets, hit them, and raise a hand early when something’s slipping, with a recommendation on what to cut. - As part of the founding team, you’ll shape the product as much as the engineering. Build the Product - Build web applications and backend services that handle complex data models and database interactions - Build and maintain integrations with CRM and ERP systems so data flows cleanly between Pursuit and the tools our customers already use - Design system architecture that’s as simple as possible and still scales Make AI Work at Scale - Use off-the-shelf models to extract, parse, and reliably output data from millions of sources: PDFs, web pages, and more - Build the evaluation and testing systems that show us how each model version performs against the last OUR TECH STACK: - LLMs, Vercel AI, LlamaIndex, Langsmith, Mastra - NestJS,Typescript, Express - MongoDB, Postgres, Turbopuffer - GraphQL / Apollo Server - AWS - Python (nice to have experience) WHAT YOU’LL BRING: - You’ve owned a product area end to end, not just shipped features in it. - You do your best work without a spec: you talk to the customer, write the brief, and make the call. - System architecture expertise: you design systems that solve the customer’s problem and are as simple as possible. You’re comfortable with cloud and AI services, event-based architectures, and complex database models - Comfort with ambiguity: you do your best work without detailed instructions, and you’d rather talk to a customer than wait for a spec NICE TO HAVES: - Experience with our stack. - LLM experience: you’ve used off-the-shelf models in production to extract and parse data from PDFs, web pages, and other unstructured sources - Experience building model evaluation or testing systems that compare one model version against the last - Early-stage startup experience where you owned big pieces of the product WHY JOIN PURSUIT?: Work with proven founders affecting trillions in government contracts. Ground floor opportunity to shape the company, not just your role. When you’re old and dying, make sure you work on something that really matters. - Do Your Life’s Work: Our mission is to improve government, benefitting every citizen - AI-First: Build production AI that reads millions of public documents and turns them into intelligence customers act on - Backed by Top Investors: Join a highly ambitious, well-funded startup - Driving Innovation in Public-Sector Engagement: Own and execute innovative, high-impact projects that redefine how businesses engage with public-sector opportunities - Personal Growth: You’ll be challenged every day; your growth will come in dog years