Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company focused on delivering impactful digital services for government organizations. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Back End / Front End who will lead technical direction, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive improvements in software engineering processes while working in a federal environment.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Help lead the technical design and execution of next-generation platform capabilities, including easier on-ramps for tenants, schema management tooling, onboarding workflows, and a developer experience layer that simplifies Event Bus integration
- Set the technical bar for tenant integrations, including documented patterns for different integration shapes (lightweight clients, native Kafka producers, and protocol-specific listeners)
- Partner with our DevOps team to identify and automate operational toil, expanding what the platform automatically handles for tenants
- Work directly with producer and consumer teams across VA, balancing hands-on integration support with the conversion of lessons learned into repeatable platform patterns, templates, and automation
- Operate with high autonomy across the platform’s surface area, making smart technical decisions without needing constant oversight
- Participate in on-call rotation, contributing to better tooling and runbooks that improve the on-call experience
- Mentor engineers across the team and partner closely with engineering, DevOps, and product leadership; raise the technical bar through code review and design feedback, and play an active role in team development
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and 9+ 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
- Strong generalist with the ability to read and contribute in any of the languages our producers and consumers use (Java, Ruby, Node, Python, Go)
- Ability to explain how Kubernetes works under the hood, with hands-on experience in a modern CD system (Argo CD or equivalent) and GitHub Actions
- Direct experience with Kafka or another distributed event platform as a platform operator
- Experience designing or operating internal developer platforms or paved roads that other engineers depend on
- Experience at a large or bureaucratically complex organization (government, healthcare, finance) with demonstrated silo-busting
- Familiarity with FedRAMP / FISMA / ATO and how compliance shapes platform design
Benefits
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
Company Overview
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://adhoc.team/.