Senior Software Engineer FS

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

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 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 FS 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 - Full Stack 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. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack 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 lead 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

• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)

• Experience using modern, open source software to prototype and deploy backend web applications, including all aspects of server-side processing, data storage, and integration with frontend development

• Web development using open-source web programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python) and frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails)

• Developing and consuming web-based, RESTful APIs

• Using and working in team environments that use agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean)