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Evergreen: Staff Software Engineer - (Lead Developer)

Ad Hoc
Washington, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Feb 2026
💰 $157,000/yr($140,000/yr$157,000/yr)

About the role

Evergreen: Staff Software Engineer - Lead Developer

Evergreen Role

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

This is a remote position.

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.

Work on things that matter

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. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack serves as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit. A Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack include:

  • Plans and executes on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors

  • Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders

  • Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders

  • Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities

  • Reduces ambiguity in the systems they work with, including adding documentation, refactoring, and automated testing

  • Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications

  • Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

  • Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of engineering experience

    • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

  • Expert-level capabilities in at least one major technology stack, able to independently lead teams and ensure successful delivery

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join

Benefits:

  • Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

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