Technical Lead: Public health site front-end modernization

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Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions 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 approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

We’re rebuilding how 330 million Americans access public health information while increasing trust. For a highly visible federal agency, we’re replacing a static, decades-old web experience with AI-powered features, engaging data visualizations, personalization, and a mobile-first platform that surfaces health content to meet modern engagement expectations.

You’ll be the technical leader writing code, making architecture decisions, unblocking people, and owning the technical quality of a transformative site. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’re in the codebase daily and setting the technical standard your team follows.

The site will align with the White House National Design Studio ethos where consumer-grade polish is the standard. If you’ve shipped products that people love using and you want to do that at national scale, you will fit this role well.

As an Technical Lead, you will be responsible for working with leadership to shape the technical direction of the program, while gaining exposure into people management. An Technical Lead is a people manager, leader, and mentor with the ability to cross-functionally lead program delivery. You are an emerging subject matter expert that is developing the skills to successfully lead through team members and effectively communicate and execute against program and organizational objectives.

In this role, an Technical Lead will support leadership in partnering with peers to meet delivery requirements. Primary expectations of an Engineering Lead include:

Own the technical architecture end-to-end. Preferred stack experience includes Next.js frontend, headless CMS integration layer, AI-powered search, Cloudflare edge delivery, Azure hosting.

Write production code daily. Set patterns in the codebase that the team follows. Conduct code reviews that raise the bar.

Define and enforce the API contracts between teams so they can build in parallel without blocking each other.

Make fast, informed technology decisions under deadline pressure. You’ll choose tools, resolve technical disagreements, and own the tradeoffs.

Collaborate with the UI/UX…