# Hackathons - Team Lead (FedD068) at Defenseunicorns

- Company: Defenseunicorns
- What the company does: At Defense Unicorns, we make software a strategic deterrent with solutions that promote data independence, portability, and efficiency. Backed by Sapphire.
- Company website: https://defenseunicorns.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/defenseunicorns/jobs/5195772007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/defenseunicorns-hackathons-team-lead-fedd068/

## 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

Tags: Federal Delivery