Lead Engineer

🕒 September 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Ad Hoc LLC

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology consulting firm that modernizes digital government services through human-centered design, platform and mobile development, and systems transformation. The company specializes in data interoperability, API infrastructure, DevOps and cybersecurity practices, and AI-driven/agentic automation to help federal, state, and local agencies scale services, reduce costs, and improve user experiences. Notable work includes large-scale Medicare enrollment processing, the VA Health and Benefits mobile app, and enabling access to billions of health claims via modern APIs.

📋 Description

• Design, write, test, and ship production code in Java 17+ and Spring Boot as part of a delivery team working in two-week sprints • Own technically complex work end to end, including API design, service decomposition, data access, and integration with existing enterprise systems • Raise engineering standards through code review, pairing, and engineering practices, with attention to automated test coverage • Mentor engineers by working alongside them on real problems • Serve as a technical point of contact with customer architects and technical staff • Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and dependencies to engineering, product, and program stakeholders • Contribute to system design documentation, architecture decisions, and technical discussions • Serve as people manager for a small group of Ad Hoc engineers, including feedback, performance and career development, timecard, and PTO administration • Participate in candidate interviews and support development and evaluation of technical assessments • Contribute to technical solutioning and proposal development as needed

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of relevant software engineering experience; relevant professional experience may be substituted for education • Currently hands-on; has personally written and shipped production code within the last 12 months, and expects to continue doing so daily in this role • 8+ years of hands-on Java development, including current experience with Java 17 or later • 5+ years building production services with Spring and Spring Boot • 5+ years designing and building REST APIs and web services in a microservices architecture • 5+ years with Oracle or a comparable relational database, including ORM experience (Hibernate/JPA) and SQL performance troubleshooting • Demonstrated experience raising engineering quality on a team through testing practice, code review, or refactoring of an existing codebase • Experience mentoring engineers in a technical capacity • Extensive experience across the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, now or in the future • Must be able to successfully obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance • Preferred: active, VA-adjudicated Public Trust • Preferred: Kafka, Redis, Spring WebFlux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, federal government programs, government contracting, cross-functional teams, and prior hands-on people management

🏖️ 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

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