Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End
Job number: 805

This is a remote position.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End serves 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 - Front End/ 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.

Most weeks are split between two kinds of work: helping a tenant team get integrated with the Event Bus, and turning what we learned from that integration into reusable patterns and tooling. Senior engineers here are good at both modes and own significant subsystems end-to-end

We're a blended team operating in a federal environment. The role suits engineers who can navigate organizational complexity without losing momentum and keep the platform's users, VA engineers building services Veterans depend on, at the center of their decisions.

Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ Back End include:

• 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:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
  
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Extensive experience with software development, customer interactions, formal and informal communication, and mentorship
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (backend, infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling).
• Strong generalist with the ability to read and contribute in any of the languages our producers and consumers use (Java, Ruby, Node, Python, Go).
• Ability to explain how Kubernetes works under the hood, with hands-on experience in a modern CD system (Argo CD or equivalent) and GitHub Actions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with Kafka or another distributed event platform.
• Experience contributing to internal developer platforms or paved roads that other engineers depend on.
• Experience at a large or bureaucratically complex organization (government, healthcare, finance).
• Familiarity with FedRAMP / FISMA / ATO

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