Technical Solutions Engineer

State Affairs, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

State Affairs, Inc. is hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer in Washington, DC to drive technical wins in enterprise deals. You will run demos, build prototypes with React/Next.js and Node/TypeScript, and articulate our architecture, data, APIs, and security to CIOs and procurement teams.

You’ll own security reviews, RFP responses, integrations, and AI workflows, shaping features with Product and Engineering while enabling the sales team with scalable demos and guides.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
• Experience with React/Next.js and Node/TypeScript to build prototypes quickly.
• Experience closing deals: supporting sales, demos for senior audiences, and winning outcomes.
• Strong SQL and schema design skills (Postgres).
• Ability to work with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication/SSO, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience using LLM coding tools to speed up prototyping and debugging.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker and CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and security reviews.
• Excellent communication: explain architecture to engineers and executives.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to close enterprise deals, joining discovery and demo calls.
• Run tailored demos and proofs of concept using React/Next.js and Node/TypeScript.
• Explain data, APIs, AI features, security posture and architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Own security reviews, RFP responses, and technical sections of procurement requests.
• Build integrations and AI workflows (APIs, data feeds, SSO, CRM) for rapid customer value.
• Share customer feedback with Product and Engineering to guide feature requests.
• Create reusable demo environments and technical one-pagers for sales enablement.
• Collaborate with Customer Success to ensure post-sale commitments are delivered.

Skills

Full-stack development

React/Next.js

Node/TypeScript

SQL (Postgres)

REST APIs

LLM coding tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Technical storytelling

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

State Affairs is the nation’s leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. We combine nonpartisan coverage of Statehouses across the country alongside state government data and AI-native tools into a singular platform.

We inform and empower decision makers, policy professionals and citizens through our award-winning journalism and data – delivering profound insights to help our customers decode and act on state politics and policy. We’re building a category-defining business that will reshape America as we strengthen visibility into what’s happening and why at the state level.

We are hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer to join our team located in Washington, DC.

As the Technical Solutions Engineer you will:

• Partner with Account Executives to close enterprise deals. Join discovery and demo calls, qualify technical fit, and own the technical win from the first meeting through signature.
• Run tailored demos and proofs of concept. Build custom demos, prototypes and POCs in React/Next.js and Node/TypeScript that show a prospect's own policy issues, states and workflows.
• Speak the tech, in plain language. Explain our data, APIs, AI features, security posture and architecture to CIOs, engineers, government affairs leads and procurement teams alike.
• Own security reviews and RFPs. Answer technical questionnaires, security and compliance reviews, and the technical sections of RFPs.
• Build integrations and AI workflows. Scope and build lightweight integrations (APIs, data feeds, SSO, CRM and internal tools) and LLM-powered workflows that get customers to value fast.
• Be the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering. Turn what you hear in deals into clear feature requests, scoped milestones and the occasional pull request of your own.
• Make the sales team sharper. Create reusable demo environments, technical one-pagers, integration guides and objection answers, and train AEs on the technical story.
• Hand off cleanly. Partner with Customer Success on onboarding so technical commitments made in the sale are delivered after it.

Essential Qualifications for this position include:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of prior professional work experience as a full-stack software engineer.
• Prior professional work experience with React/Next.js and Node/TypeScript. You can build a working prototype in days, not weeks.
• Prior professional work experience in closing deals: you've supported a sales cycle, run demos for senior audiences, and enjoy the win.
• Solid SQL and schema design skills (Postgres).
• Ability to work with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication/SSO and common enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to use LLM coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to move faster on prototypes and debugging.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker and CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and enough security and compliance fluency to handle an enterprise security review.
• Excellent communication skills. You can whiteboard an architecture for engineers, then explain the same thing to a non-technical executive in two minutes.
• Willingness to do occasional travel to customer sites for meetings, as needed.

Preferred Qualifications for this position include:

• Prior professional work experience in a start-up organization
• 2+ years in a customer-facing role such as solutions engineering, sales engineering, forward-deployed engineering or technical consulting.
• Prior professional work experience selling into enterprises, trade associations, government affairs teams or the public sector.

This is an onsite work opportunity and our teams operate from the State Affairs office in Washington, DC (located at L and 15th St. NW)/ State Affairs offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package to employees.

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $120,000 - $210,000 for candidates working from the State Affairs office in Washington, DC. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. Benefits listed in this posting may vary depending on the nature of your employment with State Affairs.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

State Affairs is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. State Affairs does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

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