Staff Backend Engineer - Remote Platform Leader

Ad Hoc LLC

United States

Remote

USD 130,000 - 150,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Company-subsidized health, dental, and
Vision insurance
Flexible PTO
401K with employer match
Paid parental leave after one year

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is a remote-first tech company. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services and APIs in Java for distributed systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with VA and other teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities. You will work across multiple technologies, improve operational tooling, and help deliver secure, scalable software in a remote, collaborative environment with flexible travel for client

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree is required; 9+ years in software engineering preferred.
  • Strong backend experience with Java and RESTful APIs in distributed systems.
  • Experience leading complex technical work and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and execution of platform capabilities and tenant integrations.
  • Establish patterns for integration, onboarding, and developer experience.
  • Collaborate with VA teams, DevOps, and product leaders to reduce toil.
  • Plan roadmaps, document decisions, and communicate technical tradeoffs.

Skills

Java backend
REST APIs
Microservices
Distributed systems
Kubernetes
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spring Boot
Kafka
Docker
Git

Job description

Ad Hoc LLC is a remote-first tech company. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services and APIs in Java for distributed systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with VA and other teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities. You will work across multiple technologies, improve operational tooling, and help deliver secure, scalable software in a remote, collaborative environment with flexible travel for client

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