Senior Software Engineer Front End

Ad Hoc; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 125,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Senior Software Engineer where you'll contribute to impactful digital services for government agencies. Your role involves mentoring junior engineers, leading projects, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Ad Hoc values flexibility and a collaborative culture, ideal for remote work. With a focus on innovation, you'll help shape the future of public sector technology.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• Expert-level knowledge in frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements.
• Mentors junior engineers and communicates technical issues effectively.
• Leads small team structures and presents design documents.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Technical Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

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 Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the implementation of the program’s development strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End include:

• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with outdoors applications
• 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 $125,000 - $130,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.