At Defense Unicorns, we make software a strategic deterrent with solutions that promote data independence, portability, and efficiency. Backed by Sapphire.
About the role
As a Team Lead at Defense Unicorns, you will serve as the technical backbone of our hackathon program: setting the architecture, integration patterns, and technical guardrails every event runs on. You'll work across the team to design, plan, and execute large-scale, community-facing hackathon events throughout the year, moving fluidly between technical strategy and energizing a room full of mission heroes, operators, and builders.
What they're looking for
- Strong hands-on technical background, with demonstrated experience designing and building software systems in complex, multi-technology environments
- Hands-on experience with UDS or similar platform abstraction and deployment frameworks
- Experience engaging directly with government or defense stakeholders in a technical capacity, including translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Comfort with presales or customer-facing roles that blend technical credibility with the ability to generate excitement and communicate value
- Demonstrated understanding of software delivery and platform engineering practices for air-gapped environments, including offline package management, artifact distribution, and secure update mechanisms
More about this role
As a Team Lead at Defense Unicorns, you will serve as the technical backbone of our hackathon program: setting the architecture, integration patterns, and technical guardrails every event runs on. You'll work across the team to design, plan, and execute large-scale, community-facing hackathon events throughout the year, moving fluidly between technical strategy and energizing a room full of mission heroes, operators, and builders.
You'll evaluate and integrate the right mix of partner technologies (cloud providers, Defense Unicorns' own platform and tooling, and the broader defense vendor ecosystem) into a durable reference architecture that works within controlled environments. You'll serve as a credible technical voice with government stakeholders and industry partners, ensuring every hackathon is built on a foundation that sets participants up to succeed and produces outcomes that can transition to production.
- Set and own the overall technical direction for each hackathon, ensuring solutions are grounded in UDS and Defense Unicorns' platform and tooling philosophy
- Evaluate and integrate partner technologies and third-party tools to ensure broad compatibility across the...
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