Senior Software Engineer - Front End

This is a remote position with heavy travel during the first 3-6 months

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 Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

Senior Software Engineer - The Frontend Engineer will create the intelligent, responsive interfaces that transform how Americans interact with public health information in the digital age. They'll build user experiences that seamlessly blend traditional content with AI-powered features. This may include displaying chatbot responses in an accessible conversational UI, visualizing health data that updates in real-time, or creating smart forms that adapt based on user input. This engineer will tackle unique challenges like rendering AI-generated content with appropriate confidence indicators, building interfaces that gracefully handle uncertain or evolving health information, and ensuring that complex features remain usable for people with varying technical and health literacy levels. Working closely with the AI/ML team, they'll implement frontend patterns for streaming responses, error states for AI features, and feedback mechanisms that improve model performance. Their work ensures the interface responds instantly, displays information clearly, and maintains the trust in public health digital experiences, all while preparing the frontend architecture to accommodate future AI capabilities that haven't been invented yet. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Front End include:

• 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 leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects

• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of engineering experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Experience with React with TypeScript (including hooks, context, and modern patterns) - For building complex, type-safe interfaces t