Data Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Washington, D.C., Remote - United States

Employment Type: FullTime

TL;DR

• Join a fast growing, early-stage AI startup

• Build and ship functionality to our advanced AI/ML data pipeline

• Work closely with our CTO (ex-Brave VP, PhD ML, multiple exits) and a driven, small team

• Help democratize access to $650B+ in annual government contracts for small businesses

About Us
At JustWin, we’re on a mission to democratize access to government contracts. Every year, over $650B in federal, state, and local contracts are awarded to small businesses — but the RFP process is soul-crushingly complex.

Our AI-powered platform makes it radically easier for businesses to discover, decipher, and win contracts. Backed by top investors and already trusted by hundreds of customers, we’re small but mighty — and just getting started.

The Role
We are looking for a senior level data engineer to help us with our data pipeline and backend API. JustWin checks tens of thousands of government websites every day to find new government contracts, and processes them through our advanced data pipeline, to score and summarize them for our customers. Our pipeline is working 24/7 to make sure we don’t miss anything that our customers would have wanted to see. We need a great data engineer who will help us scale our pipeline to serve our growing customer base, and add advanced new features on our backend APIs.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and expand our existing data pipeline for ingesting government contract data

• Monitor and instrument for data issues, and help us eval our AI processing

• Experiment with LLMs/AI agents to simplify RFP analysis and proposal creation

• Support new user features by building new functionality into our backend API

• Own critical problems end-to-end, balancing speed and quality

What We’re Looking For

While we are open minded about your precise background, the ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record along many of the following dimensions:

• Strong technical contributor: you’ve built and shipped complex products, ideally in web apps or AI-powered tools.

• Customer-oriented mindset: you care about building intuitive experiences that make real users’ lives easier.

• AI Passion: you’ve worked with LLMs and data-driven systems.

• Ownership mentality: you don’t wait for permission — you proactively identify problems and solve them.

• Fast learner: you thrive in ambiguity, adapt quickly, and are excited to pick up new skills.

• Clear communicator: you explain complex concepts simply and directly.

• Culture fit: you value grit, teamwork, and transparency — and see hard work as a feature, not a bug.

• Open to quarterly travel (if not on-site in DC): able to travel to Washington, D.C. roughly once per quarter for team meetings and collaboration.

Nice to Haves

• Strong experience with Python/Django

• Experience with workflow/DAG platforms like Prefect or Apache Airflow

• Experience with databases, ideally Postgres

• Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS or GCP

• Familiarity with LLMs and how to prompt them

• Familiarity with web scraping frameworks

• Background in startups, small teams, or fast-paced environments.

• Experience working on AI/ML-enabled products.

To Recap – Why Join Us?

• Mission-driven: Help small businesses access opportunities that shape our country.

• Early impact: Join a small but mighty team where your work directly shapes our product and company.

• Work with the best: Learn from an experienced CTO and a founding team that’s scaling fast.

• Real traction: Backed by $3M+ funding and already used by hundreds of paying customers.

• Upside: Competitive compensation + equity upside