Principal Software Engineer - Team Lead - Unanet

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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

Your First 90 Days

In your First 30 Days, you’ll build a strong understanding of the GovIntel and GovChannel product doma