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

Unanet

Principal Software Engineer leading engineering for Unanet’s Contraqer product portfolio, driving technical direction and team collaboration across product capabilities.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudDistributed SystemsEntity FrameworkKubernetes.NETSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

employee equity
discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time
employee benefits plans and programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

.NETEntity FrameworkAngularSQLSaaS applicationsAPIscloud-native environmentscontainersKubernetesCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationtechnical judgmentownershipproblem-solvingcoachingincident responsecontinuous improvement