Engineering Lead

Ad Hoc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape the technical direction of the program while managing teams. This role requires expertise in AWS and CI/CD and offers a salary range of $140,000 to $150,000. Join a collaborative environment that values inclusivity and high expectations as you help transform public-sector services for Veterans.

Benefits

Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave after one year

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in a related field.
• Proven experience with AWS and CI/CD.
• 2+ years of mentoring and coaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Shapes the technical direction of the program.
• Provides coaching and development to engineering teams.
• Responsible for hiring and performance management.

Skills

Coaching

Mentoring

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics or other engineering discipline

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Bash

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

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 Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for working with leadership to shape the technical direction of the program, while gaining exposure into people management. An Engineering Lead is a people manager, leader, and mentor with the ability to cross-functionally lead program delivery. You are an emerging subject matter expert that is developing the skills to successfully lead through team members and effectively communicate and execute against program and organizational objectives. In this role, an Engineering Lead will support leadership in partnering with peers to meet delivery requirements. Primary expectations of an Engineering Lead include:

• Develops an understanding of program scope, schedule and cost management; with the support of leadership, articulates contractual delivery requirements to team members
• Provides coaching and development to engineering team members, and works with leadership to define growth goals and development plans, and creates a culture where people can learn and evolve
• Serves as a mentor, supporting one or two teams' Engineers in technical direction and career management
• Leads team processes and seeks out best practices to fill gaps
• Develops collaboration skills to partner with key stakeholders to represent the engineering practice in advocating for the best technical solutions while communicating tradeoffs
• Development of effective written communication and presentation skills to describe systems, design decisions, and past performance
• May participate in bid-writing, tech demos, strategic planning, and other client-facing communications
• Presents program's ongoing engineering work, future goals, and risks
• Development of influential skills to translate and communicate technical challenges and roadmaps
• Participates in interviews with new candidates and develops/grades homework
• Responsible for hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management and team development

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics or other engineering or technical discipline and 9+ years of experience
  • 16 years total of relevant years of experience may be substituted for the degree
• Proven experience building pipelines for administering cloud infrastructure on AWS & its supporting services, such as observability & monitoring
• Advanced experience with CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Sell scripting (e.g. Bash, POSIX)
• 2+ years of mentoring and coaching experience; experience with communicating and leading tasking efforts to support delivery
• Extensive experience with software development, customer interactions, formal and informal communication, and mentorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Docker and Terraform
• General understanding of government contracting requirements and regulations
• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $140,000 - $150,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.