[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Ad Hoc

Role Description

Senior Software Engineer - Front End/Back End serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. A Senior Software Engineer - Front End/Back End impacts the long-term goals of the program while contributing to the implementation of the program’s development strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.

• Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership of their contributions to an application code base.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems.
• Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, using incidents to inform educational opportunities and system improvements.
• Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills.
• Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients.
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates.
• Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems.
• May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team.
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Relevant professional experience may be substituted for education where permitted.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area: frontend engineering (Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) or backend engineering (Python, Java 21, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch).
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge with Spring Boot 4 framework.
• Strong working knowledge of containerized microservices and AWS services (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Experience building and consuming versioned RESTful APIs with published OpenAPI specifications.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and version control via Git.
• Working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and their application to frontend or backend development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical decisions for non-technical audiences including federal agency stakeholders.

Requirements

• Prior experience with federal agency digital services or government contracting environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using AWS SNS/SQS and Lambda/Step Functions.
• Experience with consumer-driven contract testing using Pact or API contract governance across microservices.
• Experience with Maven, POM (Project Object Model) management, or Poetry.
• Exposure to SAFe or scaled Agile delivery frameworks including PI planning and ART coordination.

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401K with employer match.
• Paid parental leave after one year of service.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Company Description

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

• Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery.
• We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start.
• Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide.
• Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility.
• The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space.