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

About the role

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.

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

Qualifications

• 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
• Strong 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