Remote Engineering Lead — Java Microservices

Ad Hoc LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-subsidized health, dental, and

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking an Engineer Lead to guide a modernization team building Java microservices. You will contribute code, set technical standards, and mentor a small group of engineers while aligning with customer architects and product goals.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, architecture work, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment serving federal and government-focused programs. Strong communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Currently hands-on - has personally written and shipped production code within the last 12 months, and expects to continue daily in this role.
• 8+ years of hands-on Java development, including Java 17 or later.
• 5+ years building production services with Spring and Spring Boot.
• 5+ years designing and building REST APIs and web services in a microservices architecture.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, now or in the future

Responsibilities

• Design, write, test, and ship production code in Java 17+ and Spring Boot as part of a delivery team.
• Own technically complex work end to end - API design, service decomposition, data access, and integration against existing systems.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, pairing, and automated test coverage.
• Mentor engineers by working on real problems with the team.
• Serve as a technical point of contact with customer architects and staff, explaining design decisions.
• Communicate risk, tradeoffs, and dependencies clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle

Hibernate/JPA

SQL

Kafka

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking an Engineer Lead to guide a modernization team building Java microservices. You will contribute code, set technical standards, and mentor a small group of engineers while aligning with customer architects and product goals.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, architecture work, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment serving federal and government-focused programs. Strong communication is essential.