Staff Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End

Ad Hoc; Illinois; Remote; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Ad Hoc is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End to work remotely on Federal Civilian projects. You will provide technical leadership, design REST APIs and microservices, and collaborate with product, design, and client teams to deliver scalable software.

We value high standards, mentorship, and pragmatic problem solving for complex government tech. 9+ years in software and deep Java/Spring Boot expertise, with AWS, Docker, and modern dev practices are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expert in backend engineering with leadership on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure scope, schedule, quality, and delivery.
• Represent software engineering in planning and communicate tradeoffs.
• Lead architecture discussions for APIs, microservices, and tech choices.
• Design and maintain REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Mentor engineers and drive improvements in engineering practices.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and clients to translate needs.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality and security.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Terraform

GitLab

Maven

Python

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GitLab

Maven

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End

Job Number: 941

This is a remote position.

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

The Staff Software Engineer - Back End serves as an emerging subject matter expert and individual contributor who operates with a high level of trust, autonomy, and ownership. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will provide technical leadership to ensure scope, schedule, quality, and delivery requirements are met and may support adjacent programs within the business unit.

You will represent the software engineering discipline in technical and product planning, advocate for effective technical solutions, and clearly communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs. You will serve as a technical lead and trusted partner to engineering teams, product teams, clients, and stakeholders while driving improvements in software engineering processes and practices.

Primary expectations of a Staff Software Engineer - Back End include:

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of software engineering experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing applications, services, or automation using Python
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures
• Experience developing and deploying applications in AWS
• Experience with AWS services, including ECS and Lambda
• Experience with containerized application development and deployment using Docker
• Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience with GitLab, including source control and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Maven and POM management
• Experience with Python dependency management using Poetry
• Experience with automated testing, code reviews, debugging, and modern software engineering practices
• Experience designing or supporting distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Experience with application security, observability, performance optimization, and production troubleshooting
• Experience delivering software within federal government or public-sector environments
• Experience supporting technical solutioning, technical demonstrations, or client-facing engineering discussions

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join

Benefits

• 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 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.

We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply.

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 $150,000 - $165,000 Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

job reference:

https://adhoc.team/