Senior Full Stack Software Engineer; Technical Lead

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Job Number: 857

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.

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.

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 foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

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.

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Technical Lead) serves as a senior technical contributor and engineering leader within a cross-functional delivery team. This role combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, mentorship, architecture guidance, and delivery support. You will help shape engineering direction, drive technical excellence, and support the growth of fellow engineers while partnering closely with product, design, and federal stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions.

With minimal oversight, you will help guide technical decisions, support delivery execution, and influence the long-term engineering strategy of the program. You will serve as a trusted technical leader who promotes engineering best practices, removes delivery obstacles, and helps ensure high-quality outcomes across the team.

Primary expectations include:

Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex frontend and backend solutions within a cloud-native microservice architecture.

Provide technical leadership across engineering initiatives, helping teams break down work, identify risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver against program goals and timelines.

Facilitate technical design discussions, author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and present system designs and recommendations to engineers, product owners, and federal stakeholders.

Serve as a mentor and coach for junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing activities.

Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, including peer code reviews, testing standards, accessibility requirements, security compliance, and maintainable software design.

Build and consume RESTful APIs using versioned OpenAPI specifications while contributing to backend services, frontend applications, and system integrations.

Enforce engineering quality standards, including Sonar Qube quality gate compliance, automated testing, and remediation of security findings within development cycles.

Partner closely with product managers, designers, delivery…