Remote Staff Software Engineer — Backend & API Lead

Ad Hoc LLC; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company delivering scalable digital services for federal civilian customers. This remote Staff Software Engineer - Back End role leads backend architecture, guides engineering teams, and designs REST APIs and microservices for government-focused products.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and client teams to deliver reliable, secure software at scale in a nationwide remote setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in back-end software engineering, with experience providing technical leadership on complex software development efforts.
• Extensive experience developing production applications and services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and reliable software solutions.
• Experience providing technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership for the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex back-end applications and services.
• Plans and executes technical roadmaps for new and existing projects with minimal guidance from technical leadership.
• Leads technical discussions and contributes to architecture, system design, API design, and technology selection decisions.
• Designs and evaluates scalable, maintainable, secure, and reliable technical solutions while clearly communicating architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
• Designs, develops, and maintains REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Partners with product, design, engineering, and other cross-functional team members to translate product and business needs into effective technical solutions.
• Actively participates in planning sessions and technical discussions with clients, partners, and key stakeholders.
• Breaks down complex or ambiguous technical problems, identifies constraints and dependencies and provides clear technical direction.
• Reduces technical ambiguity and debt through documentation, refactoring, automated testing, and improvements to engineering practices.
• Establishes and promotes engineering standards related to code quality, testing maintainability, security, performance, and reliability.
• Performs code reviews and provides technical guidance and actionable feedback to engineers.
• Mentors engineers and supports technical growth through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Identifies technical risks and dependencies and provides recommendations to mitigate delivery risks.
• Communicates effectively about existing systems, architectural decisions, technical constraints, and project history to support technical demonstrations, proposals, and other client-facing activities.
• Presents technical concepts and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, clearly articulating implementation complexity, tradeoffs, risks, and costs.
• Participates in technical interviews and evaluations of engineering candidates.
• Periodically travels to collaborate with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Backend engineering

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

Docker

Maven

GitLab

Terraform

Job description

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company delivering scalable digital services for federal civilian customers. This remote Staff Software Engineer - Back End role leads backend architecture, guides engineering teams, and designs REST APIs and microservices for government-focused products.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and client teams to deliver reliable, secure software at scale in a nationwide remote setting.