State Affairs
Software Engineer
$120K–$210K
Washington, DC +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 18, 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- Professional work experience required; no number of years specified.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.
About the job
Build and ship end-to-end product features for a state-government news and policy intelligence platform, including user interfaces, APIs, data models, and AI-enabled workflows.
What you'll do
- Deliver vertical product features from design through deployment, including React interfaces, Node handlers, database queries, and AWS delivery.
- Build responsive data workflows such as search, real-time collaboration, annotations, and version comparisons.
- Partner with product and design teams, monitor outcomes, and improve engineering practices through instrumentation, feature flags, and code reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Professional experience as a full-stack software engineer and building React/Next and Node/TypeScript applications.
- Ability to program in SQL and work with Postgres and Mongo schema designs.
- Ability to operate CI/CD with Docker and GitHub Actions, work with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CDK), and use LLM coding tools.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of search indexes or vector databases for RAG/semantic workflows; Next 14 SSR and ISR patterns; AI/ML concepts and AI-driven features.
- Professional experience with data visualization (D3, Recharts), rich-text editors (Slate, TipTap), or a startup organization.
Pay
$120,000 - $210,000 USD base salary
Tools
React, Next JS, Node/TypeScript, SQL, Postgres, Mongo, Docker, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Use LLM tools (Claude-Code, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate coding and debugging; build or support semantic-search and other AI-driven workflows.
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