Staff Software Engineer (remote)

• This position is fully remote
• This position is for our Veteran's Administration team.
• A minimum of Five years of years experience in software design and development
• Bachelor’s Degree.

Work on things that matter
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start. And as we work to make critical government services intuitive, accessible, and human-centered, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. If you thrive on change, want to help close the gap between consumer expectations and government services, and can see the possibilities in ambiguity, then we want you here with us. 

What matters most
Ad Hoc operates according to our commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We believe in missions larger than our individual selves and leave our egos at the door, learn from our mistakes, and iterate in order to better serve the people in our country. We prioritize building teams that represent the diversity of the people our government serves. We love the challenge of government-size projects. We want to bring skills to federal agencies, help them better meet the needs of their users, and close the gap between consumer expectations and government. 

Built for a remote life
Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide distributed team since the beginning. Being remote by design allows Ad Hoc to be thoughtful and intentional about creating diverse teams and supporting them with a work environment that fits their lives. With a generous PTO policy and Slack channels for every interest (from bird watching to space nerds to parenting) our culture embraces the things happening in your life. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s embraced. 

Our ideal Staff Back End Software Engineer knows how to build large-scale production systems in modern agile environments. They write well-structured, tested, and secure code with little feedback or guidance. They’ve designed and implemented reliable and maintainable APIs and built services that integrate with external dependencies. They can articulate how the thing they've built fits into a larger ecosystem. They’re not afraid of large, complex problems. They take an active role in planning and delivery efforts, drawing on their experience to suggest better approaches or alternatives. As an Ad Hoc Back End Engineer, you’ll be:

What You'll Do

• Ensuring effective engineering delivery on their program or team.
• Contributing to and delivering performance reviews with direct reports.
• Developing and presenting monthly reports based on program reporting requirements.
• Shaping the technical direction of their program. 
• Managing the technical relationship with the client, and influencing their technical decision-making. 
• Demonstrating a deep awareness of how changes they make interact with all components in a broader system. This includes technologies for frontend, backend, infrastructure, usability, and design, as well as varying development, testing, and release methodologies within an organization.
• Planning and executing on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors. 
• Actively driving conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders, and representing the engineering practice while advocating for the best technical solutions and communicating tradeoffs. Ultimately providing significant positive impact to a program’s roadmap.
• Influencing the customer toward successful outcomes by establishing trust through reliable and successful execution and demonstrated competency.
• Providing vision for other engineers within their area of influence, and advocating for that vision while taking into account client requirements. 
• Prioritizing high-impact work and delivering on that work over non-critical tasks.  
• Periodically traveling to the client site to work with and present to partners and stakeholders as necessary. 
• Elaborating and evolving on complex and ambiguous products to uncover new constraints and opportunities.
• Assigning tasks to and monitor the progress of task completion for team members.
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