Principal Software Engineer – Team Lead (.NET, Entity Framework, Angular)

Unanet

13h•$160,000 - $175,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead to help lead engineering for Unanet’s Contraqer product portfolio, spanning GovIntel and GovChannel. GovIntel is Unanet’s market intelligence and opportunity management platform for government contractors, while GovChannel is the quote-to-cash and procurement automation side of the portfolio focused on sourcing, quoting, fulfillment, support, and analytics workflows. In this role, you will lead a team building and evolving product capabilities that help customers discover and prioritize opportunities, shape teaming strategies, manage quotes and orders, and improve execution across the full pursuit-to-fulfillment lifecycle. You will partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, QA, Cloud Ops, and other Engineering leads to deliver reliable, scalable, secure software while creating clarity and momentum for our team. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong technical depth with team leadership, enjoys working across complex product domains, and actively leverages AI-assisted development tools to improve speed, quality, and consistency across the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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