Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

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.

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.

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.

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 Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor on a cross-functional team, helping deliver reliable, maintainable software that supports meaningful government services.

You will work with minimal oversight and take ownership of your contributions throughout the software development lifecycle. In addition to hands-on engineering, you will help shape technical approaches, improve engineering practices, mentor other engineers, and collaborate directly with clients and stakeholders.

• Demonstrate strong technical ownership and accountability for your contributions to the application codebase
• Design, build, test, maintain, and improve full-stack applications and services
• Maintain a strong understanding of adjacent technical systems and dependencies to effectively coordinate integrations across the broader technical ecosystem
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues within the systems you support, using incidents and lessons learned to drive future system improvements
• Evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process challenges and help the team make thoughtful, practical engineering decisions
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, including presenting design documents, system diagrams, and technical recommendations to engineers, clients, stakeholders, and partners
• Communicate technical concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and developments clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers as they develop their technical skills
• Lead small projects, technical initiatives, or temporary team structures when needed
• Identify opportunities to improve software engineering processes, development practices, system reliability, and team effectiveness
• Participate in technical interviews and help evaluate prospective engineering candidates
• Effectively integrate AI-assisted development tools into your workflow to accelerate delivery while maintaining sound judgment around code quality, security, maintainability, and architectural fit
• Stay current with evolving software engineering and AI-assisted development practices, continuously evaluating where new tools and approaches can meaningfully improve engineering speed and quality

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience developing and maintaining production software across both frontend and backend technologies
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area, such as frontend, backend, application architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps
• Experience designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining modern web applications and services
• Experience working with APIs, databases, distributed systems, and integrations between applications or services
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex technical problems and drive them through resolution
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers
• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute to architecture and engineering decisions