Senior Software Engineer FS - Backend focused

About the role

This is a remote position at Ad Hoc, 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. You’ll work on meaningful projects that shape public-sector service delivery, such as connecting Veterans to tailored services, improving access to affordable health care, and supporting programs like Head Start.

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, bringing together top talent nationwide. We value acceptance, accountability, and humility, fostering small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with partners and deliver effective software solutions.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports customers spanning federal, commercial, and nonprofit sectors, including NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, modernize legacy systems, and establish data as a strategic asset.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership of contributions to an application codebase.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to coordinate integration with those systems.
• Diagnoses and resolves issues with owned systems, using incidents to inform improvements.
• Actively mentors and assists junior engineers in skill development.
• Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients.
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates.
• Uses strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems.
• May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team or lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, and other technical materials to clients, stakeholders, partners, and engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience developing systems and applications for Federal clients.
• Experience with enterprise-level, high-availability application development.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design (OOD) patterns for separation of concerns, code reusability, security, and performance.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React.js, Angular, and Node.js.
• Ability to develop clean, well-architected code.
• Experience with cloud computing (Cloud Foundry, Azure, or AWS).
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (e.g., Jenkins).
• Proficiency in Source Control Management (preferably Git/GitHub).
• Strong database skills, preferably with Oracle or SQL Server, and experience with SQL or similar query languages and data constructs (XML, JSON).
• Experience developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP, JSON), ETL jobs, and APIs (Service-oriented architectures).
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies such as functional, SOA, and performance testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior government contracting experience.

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.

Pay

The starting range for this role is $125,000 - $145,000. Actual compensation is influenced by factors including skill set, level of experience, and responsibility.