Senior Software Engineer FS - Rails; Remote
Kemp Mill Estates, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Location: Kemp Mill Estates
Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
This is a remote position.
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 matterOur 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 lifeOur 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 cultureAd 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.
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
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience with AWS Elasticsearch to leverage its indexing capabilities to ensure our federal customers' website data is reachable by end users.
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails
- Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)
- Python, AWS RDS, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, and React experience
- Prior government contracting experience
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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
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 various state and city equal pay transparency laws, 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 $142,000 - $148,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.
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