[Remote] Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc is a technology company that creates scalable digital services for government organizations, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack will provide senior technical leadership, guide technical direction across projects, solve complex product challenges, and deliver high-quality software solutions while collaborating with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute technical roadmaps for new initiatives with minimal oversight
- Participate in strategic planning sessions with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
- Occasionally travel to collaborate with and present to clients and project partners
- Break down complex, ambiguous product challenges into actionable technical solutions
- Reduce technical debt through documentation, refactoring, and automated testing
- Clearly communicate system architecture, technical decisions, project history, and implementation tradeoffs for proposals, demonstrations, and customer engagements
- Participate in technical interviews and help evaluate engineering candidates
- Present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to support business and engineering decisions
- Champion engineering best practices while influencing improvements across teams
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in lieu of a degree
- Relevant professional experience may be substituted for education
- Expert experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails
- Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
- Experience with React, Redux, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience responding to and triaging production issues
- Demonstrated expert-level knowledge in at least one technical discipline, including frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering, with the ability to independently lead technical initiatives and ensure successful delivery
- Must be able to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Public Trust security clearance
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future
- Prior experience supporting federal government contracts
- Familiarity with the VA.gov platform and vets-api architecture
- Experience using Postman, Datadog, and RSpec
Benefits
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
- This is a remote position.
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