Senior Software Engineer - Front End/ 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 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 VA to increase the usage, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
- 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 lead 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 of which 4 years must be specialized related to the specific subject area.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, API Auth, and API integrations.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience image/code scanning experience.
To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:
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 $110,000 - $120,000. 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: SENIO001592
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