Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

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:

Staff Software Engineer -

The Full Stack Engineer will build the end-to-end systems that power the next generation of public health digital services. This role bridges modern frontend experiences with the backend and cloud infrastructure required to support AI-driven features at scale.

They will architect and implement solutions that blend traditional content with intelligent capabilities—such as conversational UIs that surface AI-generated responses, dynamic data visualizations that update in real time, or adaptive forms that respond to user behavior. They’ll solve challenges unique to public health, including presenting AI-generated content with clarity and trust, handling uncertainty in evolving health information, and ensuring accessibility for users with varying levels of digital and health literacy. 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 9+ years of engineering experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Modern Content Management Systems (CMS): Drupal, WordPress, or similar
  Experience integrating and extending CMS platforms to support structured content, API-driven delivery, and scalable information architectures

• Full-Stack JavaScript/TypeScript with React (hooks, context, modern patterns)
  Ability to build complex, type-safe user interfaces while also wiring them to backend services, AI pipelines, and real-time data sources

• USWDS (U.S. Web Design System) and responsive design frameworks
  Proficiency implementing federally compliant, accessible