Data Engineer
Why this role exists
Every city, county, and school district buys things. Roads, software, cleaning services, IT infrastructure. The total is somewhere north of two trillion dollars a year. And almost all of it moves through procurement processes designed for a different era: slow; paper-heavy; opaque and exhausting for everyone involved.
Civic Marketplace was built to fix that. We're a modern, data-driven platform where government agencies discover, evaluate, and engage suppliers. Where businesses, especially smaller and growing ones, can actually find and win public sector work without needing a dedicated contracts team to navigate the maze.
We're past the point of proving this works. Agencies are live on the platform, real money moves through it, and we're now combining that marketplace infrastructure with AI in ways that could genuinely transform how procurement works. Not just incrementally but structurally.
None of it works without data that can be trusted. Procurement is a data problem before it is a software problem: who the suppliers actually are, what they can genuinely deliver, which contracts an agency is already entitled to buy from, what this thing cost the county next door. That information exists, scattered across thousands of agency portals, state registries and PDF attachments, in no agreed format, and nobody has a
