New AI Startup · Founding Team 20% Equity — Minority Owner 15% of Every Job Completed GovCon Background Required

Founding Software Engineer — equity partner, not employee #1.

STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC is a new AI startup building the technology that finds, analyzes, and wins government contracts — Federal, State, County, and City. We're looking for one software engineer with a real government contracting background to build it with us as a 20% minority owner, earning 15% of all jobs the company completes.

Position
Founding Software Engineer
Equity
20% Minority Ownership
Job Share
15% of All Completed Jobs
Location
South Florida / Remote-Friendly
Read This First

We are a brand-new AI startup — and we're honest about it

STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC is an early-stage AI company. We are registered, licensed, and credentialed to contract at every level of government — UEI EZ8DDQA1KRP7, CAGE 9N7C3, Broward County License 379-336171, Small Business Set-Aside eligible — and we are actively building the AI capture platform that drives the business.

What that means for you: there is no big payroll, no legacy codebase, and no committee between you and a decision. There is an owner's seat, a real market, and the chance to architect the entire technical foundation of the company from day one. If you want a salaried role at an established firm, this is not it. If you want ownership in something you helped build, keep reading.

I'm Interested — Apply →

Where the company stands today

  • Registered & contract-ready — SAM.gov active, UEI & CAGE issued, reps & certs current.
  • Licensed to perform — Broward County licensed contractor, performing nationwide.
  • Working product in motion — a live capture portal that syncs SAM.gov opportunities and scores them against our NAICS profile.
  • Founding-team stage — you'd be the technical owner, not a ticket-taker.
  • Equity-based compensation — the upside is ownership and job share, not a paycheck.
The Offer

Compensation is ownership plus a share of every job

This role is compensated through equity and performance — not a traditional salary. Here is the entire structure, stated plainly, with nothing hidden.

20%

Equity — Minority Owner

A 20% minority ownership position in STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC. You become an owner of the company, with the rights and interest that accompany a minority membership stake under the operating agreement.

15%

Share of All Jobs Completed

15% compensation based on all jobs completed by the company — not just the ones you touch. Every contract STARS performs and completes contributes to your compensation.

Founding Technical Authority

You own the architecture, the stack, and the roadmap for the AI platform. Founding-level input on product direction and on how the company competes for and delivers work.

Full transparency: this position does not include a base salary. Compensation consists of the 20% equity position and the 15% job-completion share described above. All ownership and compensation terms are finalized in a definitive written agreement — an amended operating agreement and a compensation agreement — executed between you and STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC, and may include customary terms such as vesting, buy-sell provisions, and confidentiality. Candidates are encouraged to review any offer with their own attorney and tax advisor before signing. Nothing on this page is itself an offer or a binding agreement.
The Role

What you'll build

You are the engineering half of a two-sided company: government contracting expertise on one side, AI-driven software on the other. These are the systems that need an owner.

Opportunity Capture Engine

Own the pipeline that ingests SAM.gov and state, county, and city procurement portals, normalizes solicitations, and scores each one against our NAICS codes and capability profile.

AI Response Drafting

Build the LLM systems that read a solicitation, extract requirements into a compliance matrix, and draft evaluator-ready RFI, RFQ, and RFP responses that a human reviews and ships.

Backend & Real Auth

Take the capture portal from a browser-only tool to a real backend: server, database, multi-user authentication with roles, server-side syncs, and API keys that never touch the client.

Automation & Alerting

Scheduled opportunity syncs, deadline tracking, and automated email/SMS alerts on high-match solicitations so no submission window is ever missed.

Compliance-Grade Engineering

Build with the standards public-sector work demands — auditability, data handling discipline, and an architecture that can grow toward the security posture federal work requires.

Delivered AI Products

Beyond our own bidding, build the AI automation, dashboards, and custom software STARS delivers to agencies and prime contractors as contract work.

Who We're Looking For

Government contracting background is required

We can teach a lot of things. We can't teach the instinct for how a solicitation reads, what an evaluator scores, or why a submission gets thrown out on a technicality. You need to have lived it.

Required Must Have

  • Professional software engineering experience — you can architect, build, and ship a production system end to end without hand-holding.
  • Government contracting background — you have worked as, for, or alongside a federal, state, or local contractor, prime, subcontractor, or agency.
  • Working knowledge of the bid lifecycle — Sources Sought, RFI, RFQ, RFP, IDIQ task orders, and what a compliant response actually requires.
  • Familiarity with SAM.gov — registrations, UEI/CAGE, NAICS codes, set-asides, and the public opportunity APIs.
  • Full-stack capability — backend services, a database, an API, and a front end you're not afraid to build yourself.
  • Startup tolerance — comfortable with equity-based compensation, ambiguity, and being the person who decides.
  • U.S.-based and legally able to work on U.S. government contract efforts.

Strong Plus Nice to Have

  • Hands-on LLM/AI engineering — retrieval, structured extraction, evaluation, and prompt systems in production.
  • FAR / DFARS fluency or experience with proposal compliance matrices and pricing volumes.
  • Capture or proposal management exposure — bid/no-bid analysis, win themes, color team reviews.
  • Security & compliance frameworks — NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP awareness or an active clearance.
  • Cloud & DevOps — AWS/Azure/GCP, CI/CD, infrastructure as code.
  • South Florida based — we're headquartered here, though the role is remote-friendly.
  • Prior founder or early-employee experience at a company you helped get off the ground.
Hiring Process

Four steps, no black holes

You're evaluating an ownership stake, and we're evaluating a partner. Both sides get to ask hard questions.

Apply

Submit the form below with your resume. Every application goes straight to the founder — no applicant tracking system to disappear into.

Intro Call

A direct conversation about your engineering work, your GovCon experience, and what you'd want out of an ownership position.

Technical & GovCon Deep Dive

We walk a real solicitation together and talk architecture — how you'd build the capture and response engine.

Partnership Terms

We put the 20% equity and 15% job share in writing, you review it with your own advisors, and we sign.

Apply

Submit your resume & application

Fill this out and attach your resume. It's delivered directly to STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC — the founder is notified the moment you submit.

Location
South Florida HQ · Remote-friendly for the right partner
Entity
STARS Contracting SoFlo LLC · UEI EZ8DDQA1KRP7 · CAGE 9N7C3
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