Software Engineer - Back End​/Front End

About the role

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization. The role involves working with VA engineers, Dev Ops, and product leadership to drive platform improvements and tenant integrations.

• Plan and execute roadmaps for new projects with minimal guidance.
• Participate in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders.
• Travel to collaborate with clients, partners, and stakeholders as needed.
• Elaborate on and evolve complex, ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities.
• Reduce ambiguity in systems by adding documentation, refactoring, and automated testing.
• Communicate on existing systems, design decisions, and project history for bid writing, tech demos, and client-facing engagements.
• Participate in technical depth interviews with new candidates.
• Present on technical topics, articulating implementation complexity and costs to inform business decisions.
• Lead the technical design and execution of next-generation platform capabilities, including easier tenant on-ramps, schema management tooling, onboarding workflows, and a developer experience layer for Event Bus integration.
• Set the technical bar for tenant integrations, documenting patterns for different integration shapes.
• Partner with Dev Ops to identify and automate operational toil, expanding platform automation for tenants.
• Work directly with producer and consumer teams across VA, balancing hands‑on integration support with conversion of lessons into repeatable patterns, templates, and automation.
• Operate with high autonomy across the platform’s surface area, making smart technical decisions independently.
• Participate in on‑call rotation, contributing to better tooling and runbooks to improve the on‑call experience.
• Mentor engineers across the team and partner with engineering, Dev Ops, and product leadership, raising the technical bar through code review and design feedback.

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of engineering experience (relevant experience may substitute for education).
• Expert‑level capabilities in at least one major technology stack, able to lead and ensure successful delivery.
• Strong generalist with the ability to read and contribute in any of the languages used by producers and consumers (Java, Ruby, Node, Python, Go).
• Ability to explain Kubernetes fundamentals, with hands‑on experience in a modern CD system (Argo CD or equivalent) and Git Hub Actions.

• Direct experience with Kafka or another distributed event platform as a platform operator.
• Experience designing or operating internal developer platforms or paved roads that other engineers depend on.
• Experience in a large or bureaucratically complex organization (government, healthcare, finance) with demonstrated silo‑busting.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP / FISMA / ATO and how compliance shapes platform design.

• Company‑subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity 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, veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor the law protects from employment discrimination.

We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply.