Hackathons - Team Lead (FedD068)
Defense Unicorns2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction, reference architectures, integration patterns, and guardrails for each hackathon.
- Evaluate and integrate partner technologies and third-party tools across diverse participant technology stacks.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies with the Mission Manager.
- Represent the technical perspective in engagements with government stakeholders, industry partners, and hackathon participants.
- Translate complex technical capabilities into compelling mission-impact narratives and build stakeholder buy-in.
- Partner across the team, partners, and Mission Heroes throughout planning, execution, and post-event follow-up.
- Design and deliver technical programming, workshops, and participant enablement content.
- Capture technical outcomes and create post-event documentation that supports continuity and reuse.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on technical background 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 and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
- Comfort with presales or customer-facing roles that combine technical credibility, communication, and value generation.
- Understanding of software delivery and platform engineering practices for air-gapped environments, including offline package management, artifact distribution, and secure update mechanisms.
- Familiarity with the Department of War innovation ecosystem, including programs, procurement, and mission priorities, is preferred.
- Experience supporting or participating in hackathons, integration events, or innovation sprints in a technical leadership capacity is preferred.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and build structure where none exists is preferred.
- Track record of delivering technical solutions that outlast the event or sprint that created them is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote - USA
- Travel multiple times per year, primarily within the continental United States, with occasional OCONUS travel as required
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums 100% company paid
- Health Savings Account, life insurance, and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and home office budget
- Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year's
- Paid parental leave
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions
- Conference support including travel, lodging, and fees
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns builds platform software and services that streamline secure, cloud-native delivery for defense and federal programs, with emphasis on DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and air‑gapped environments. It provides software and professional services under government contracts to deploy open-architecture platforms and CI/CD pipelines across classified and disconnected systems. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, the privately held company serves U.S. defense and national security agencies.