Software Engineer, AI Agents

About NationGraph

NationGraph is making public sector data accessible and actionable for businesses selling to cities, counties, state agencies, schools, and special districts. NationGraph’s data and intelligence engine provides buying signals derived from millions of public sector sources. Founded in 2024, NationGraph is dedicated to making uncommon knowledge common, because public data should actually be public. Learn more at nationgraph.com

You’ll Join A Team That:

• Has successfully built, scaled, and sold companies in the past.

• Built software infrastructure processing billions of dollars in transactions.

• Is backed by world-class VCs and operating partners who’ve invested in, and built, iconic companies.

The Role:

We’re hiring our first Software Engineer, AI Agents to upgrade our existing data operations infrastructure and build the backbone that gathers, syncs, and maintains structured data at scale. You’ll design and ship the automation layer that powers tens of thousands of real-world interactions (emails, webforms, portals, downloads) and ensures reliability across distributed systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Automate sending and receiving data requests end-to-end: filtering/noise control, thread linkage, auto-downloads, failure handling, basic replies.

• Data Request Engine Automation: automate email, email-forms, and webforms; tackle portal submissions with browser automation.

• Enrichment pipeline: turn client enrichment requests into data ready sends; route and monitor responses automatically.

• Targeted discovery/scraping: build URL/data scrapers using Ops’ search patterns to find exact endpoints at scale.

• Engineer reliability: manage retries/backoff, queues, observability, and self-healing jobs.

• Ship fast, iterate faster: get real systems live early; refine with traffic.

What You’ll Bring:

• 2–5 years backend/automation engineering.

• Python expertise; API integrations; browser automation (Playwright/BrowserBase; BeautifulSoup okay).

• SQL fluency (Postgres/Supabase/RDS) inside live automation loops.

• Experience with async jobs/queues/schedulers and background workers.

• Comfort stitching LLMs into workflows for routing/interpretation.

• Clear communication, great docs, and ownership mindset.

Nice to have: early-stage startup experience; Airflow or similar; logging/metrics/monitoring patterns.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary + early-stage equity 💰

• Unlimited PTO ✈️

• High-quality health insurance, dental & vision coverage 🏥

• Company provided lunches (Mon - Thur) 🍜

Our Interview Process
We run a focused, high-signal process designed to be fast, thoughtful, and respectful of your time. Our goal is mutual clarity - not unnecessary hoops.
Round 1: Intro Conversation (30 min video call)
A short conversation to get to know each other.
We’ll talk about your background, motivations, and what you’re looking for. You’ll learn more about us, the role, and how we work.
Goal: Mutual fit and alignment on culture and values.
Round 2: Deep Dive (30-60min)
A working session where we explore your domain expertise and how you approach problems.
This is not trivia or gotcha questions - we’re interested in how you think.
Goal: Understand your depth, judgment, and problem-solving style.
Round 3: Case Exercise (Take-home or live)
A practical, real-world exercise that reflects the kind of work you’d do here.
You may complete it asynchronously or live with us depending on the role.
Goal: See what you can produce in your role.
Round 4: Final Round
You’ll spend with our founders, and dive deeper into how we’d work together.
Goal: Final mutual evaluation and, if there’s strong alignment, an offer.
Our Principles

• Speed: We aim to move from round to offer quickly, we appreciate your time.

• Respect: Every round has a clear purpose. No redundant interviews.

• Signal over ceremony: We care more about what you’ve built and how you think than where you went to school.

• Mutual evaluation: This is a two-way process. You’re interviewing us, too!

• Bar-raising: Every hire should make the team stronger. When in doubt, we pass.

We believe in-person work is our default. We're building a team of people who desires to work side-by-side and shape the culture of a growing company. In our experiences, some of the best ideas come from being in the room, feeling the pain, hearing the nuance, and catching the details that are easy to miss.

At the same time, we’re flexible and supportive when working-from-home is needed to maintain a healthy, balanced work environment.