Senior Software Engineer - Front End/Back End

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Front End/Back End to support the Veterans Affairs business unit in transforming the VA into a modern digital services organization, enhancing user experiences for Veterans and their families.

Responsibilities:

• 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 leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Extensive experience with software development, customer interactions, formal and informal communication, and mentorship
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (backend, infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling)
• 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
• Experience contributing to internal developer platforms or paved roads that other engineers depend on
• Experience at a large or bureaucratically complex organization (government, healthcare, finance)
• Familiarity with FedRAMP / FISMA / ATO