Enterprise Technical Lead (Clearance Required)

The role

You will own technical direction and engineering delivery for a portfolio of accounts representing $10M–$50M in contract value. You will set technical strategy, manage engineering capacity, and work directly with customers to discover mission needs and scale capabilities.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy across your portfolio
• Decide when to configure platform tools, build extensions, or write mission-specific software
• Manage engineering capacity and priorities across accounts
• Work directly with customers and end users to understand mission needs
• Master customer network topology, enterprise architecture, and mission applications
• Shape new opportunities with customer success, BD, legal, and contracting
• Build and validate prototypes with customers and product teams
• Feed recurring engineering challenges into Platform/Product planning
• Produce architecture artifacts and track work in Jira and Notion
• Mentor engineers and technical leads

Required qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on full-stack engineering
• Experience leading technical delivery on $5M+ enterprise accounts
• Track record of taking software from pilot/R&D into enterprise use
• Experience building in government or similarly regulated environments
• Familiarity with DoD RMF and NIST SP 800-53
• Experience working with government IT/program offices on requirements, architecture, and integrations
• Experience integrating with government systems including data platforms, IAM, SIEMs, and cross-domain solutions
• Strong hands-on experience building production software in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience building backend services, APIs, and modern web applications using React or a comparable framework
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS or comparable environments
• Working knowledge of relational databases, search, object storage, and caching systems such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, S3, and Redis
• Strong cross-functional communication

Nice to have

• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications or agents
• Experience with DoD Cloud Computing SRG impact levels (IL2/IL4/IL5/IL6)

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture
• WeWork access for all full time employees
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend
• In-home office setup stipend
• Family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
• 401K match

About the company

Vannevar builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions. They deploy forward with the people who own the mission, including visiting units in Ukraine.