Senior Software Engineer BE

Senior Software Engineer -Back End

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people 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 thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports a wide range of customers that span the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, PAN Foundation, Library of Congress, Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services, and the USDA Forest Service. 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 - 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 - Back End include:

• Serves as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices
• Lead cross-functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads; serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders
• Primarily focused on program and delivery strategy, but also supports tactical assignments
• Strong background with agile methodologies; ability to lead cross-functionally and deliver based upon requirements
• 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

• 8 years software development experience of web based systems
• 5+ years of experience developing Java web-based applications
• Java experience to include JSP, Spring Web Framework and REST Web Service
• 3+ years of experience working with ORACLE databases writing SQL queries
• 2+ years of experience developing web applications using JavaScript libraries and frameworks
• Experience with JavaScript (esp. jQuery), CSS and HTML, JSON and XML
• Experience with JBoss, Hibernate or myBATIS, Maven, rich AJAX web applications, Eclipse, git and Software Development Process Model knowledge
• Product Management, leadership, and customer facing experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A
  
  

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

Benefits

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
  
  

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 the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, 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 $135,000-140,000. 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: SENIO001523