Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Role Overview

Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) at Ad Hoc LLC. You’ll be a senior technical leader and trusted individual contributor with significant autonomy, helping set technical direction and deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute technical roadmaps for new initiatives with minimal oversight
• Participate in strategic planning with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
• Occasionally travel to collaborate with and present to clients/project partners
• Break down ambiguous product problems into actionable technical solutions
• Reduce technical debt via documentation, refactoring, and automated testing
• Communicate architecture, technical decisions, project history, and tradeoffs for proposals/demos
• Support hiring by participating in technical interviews and evaluating candidates
• Present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Champion engineering best practices and influence improvements across teams

Requirements (Basic Qualifications)

• BS degree and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or 10+ years without a degree
• Expert experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
• Experience with React, Redux, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience responding to and triaging production issues
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one discipline (frontend, backend, or infrastructure) with ability to independently lead initiatives
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Public Trust security clearance

Nice to Haves

• Experience across frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineering (implied by “expert-level knowledge in at least one discipline”)