Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unanet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead to lead engineering for their Contraqer product portfolio, focusing on GovIntel and GovChannel. The role involves mentoring engineers, overseeing technical direction, and ensuring the delivery of reliable and scalable software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and motivate engineers to achieve individual and team goals while fostering a collaborative, high-accountability environment
- Own technical direction and day-to-day engineering execution for GovIntel and GovChannel workstreams
- Design, build, and operate high-impact features across modules such as opportunity ingest, teaming, FPDS/award search, sourcing, quoting, fulfillment, maintenance/support, and reporting/analytics
- Work closely with product and business stakeholders to translate customer and market needs into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and backlog priorities
- Partner across functions to ensure the platform supports the workflows of business development, sales, sales management, fulfillment, procurement, finance, and executive users
- Establish and uphold engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, performance, reliability, and scalability
- Drive architecture and implementation decisions for APIs, integrations, and services that connect product capabilities and surrounding systems
- Lead code reviews, design reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for the team’s services and workflows
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully to accelerate development, documentation, refactoring, and testing while maintaining strong human review and engineering judgment
- Coach engineers in technical growth, ownership, and execution discipline, and help scale strong engineering practices across the broader organization
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including strong full-stack experience in .NET, Entity Framework, and Angular
- Meaningful experience leading technical delivery and mentoring other engineers
- Excellent knowledge of data modeling and database design, including strong SQL skills
- Strong experience building modern SaaS applications, services, or APIs in production environments
- Solid grounding in software design, distributed systems, reliability, performance, and scalable architecture
- Experience with cloud-native environments, containers, Kubernetes, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices
- Ability to turn product requirements and user stories into clear technical tasks, designs, and execution plans
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders
- High ownership and sound technical judgment, with a track record of driving initiatives from design through production
- Interest in customer workflows and domain problems in GovCon, especially opportunity management, teaming, quoting, procurement, fulfillment, and financial visibility
- Experience leading teams through architectural modernization, operational hardening, or scale-related platform improvements
- Practical experience shaping team standards for AI-assisted development
- Experience in GovCon, market intelligence, procurement, quote-to-cash, or adjacent B2B workflow platforms desired, but not required
- Familiarity with domains and data sources such as SAM.gov, FPDS/award search, agency portals, quoting, sourcing, purchase orders, invoicing, and three-way match workflows
Benefits
- Employee equity
- Discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time
- Eligible to participate in Unanet's employee benefits plans and programs
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