Staff Software Engineer – Back End

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend 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

• Lead technical design and execution of next-generation platform capabilities, including tenant on-ramps, schema management tooling, onboarding workflows, and developer experience improvements • Establish technical patterns and best practices for tenant integrations, including lightweight clients, native Kafka producers, and protocol-specific listeners • Provide hands-on integration support to producer and consumer teams across Veterans Affairs • Turn integration lessons into reusable platform patterns, templates, documentation, and automation • Partner with DevOps engineers to identify and automate operational toil • Plan and execute technical roadmaps for complex projects with minimal guidance • Work across multiple technologies and languages to understand integration challenges and contribute solutions • Reduce ambiguity and technical debt through documentation, refactoring, automated testing, and system improvements • Participate in planning and technical discussions with partners, product leaders, engineers, and stakeholders • Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, implementation complexity, and risks • Operate autonomously across the platform and make sound technical decisions • Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and hands-on collaboration • Participate in technical interviews and evaluate engineering candidates • Participate in the on-call rotation and improve tooling, documentation, and runbooks • Support technical demonstrations, proposals, and client-facing activities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of professional software engineering experience • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education • Expert-level experience in at least one major technology stack • Ability to independently lead complex technical work and help teams deliver successfully • Strong software engineering fundamentals • Ability to read, understand, and contribute across multiple programming languages, including Java, Ruby, Node.js, Python, and Go • Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and how Kubernetes operates under the hood • Hands-on experience with modern continuous delivery tools such as Argo CD or equivalent • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions or similar tooling • Experience designing, building, or supporting distributed systems in production environments • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience working independently on complex or ambiguous technical problems and driving them toward practical solutions • Preferred: Direct experience with Apache Kafka or another distributed event-streaming platform • Preferred: Experience designing or operating internal developer platforms, developer tooling, or paved-road solutions • Preferred: Experience supporting integrations across multiple engineering teams, services, or technology stacks • Preferred: Experience in government, healthcare, or financial services • Preferred: Ability to work across organizational silos and build alignment • Preferred: Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, ATO, or similar compliance frameworks

🏖️ 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 • Periodic travel to collaborate with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders

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