Senior Full Stack Software Engineer – Technical Lead

Ad Hoc LLC

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Ad Hoc designing and deploying cloud-native microservices. Leading projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with federal stakeholders to deliver impactful digital services.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudElasticSearchJavaJavaScriptMicroservicesPostgresPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 SonarQube quality gate compliance, automated testing, and remediation of security findings within development cycles.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, delivery leads, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with customer and business objectives.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives across software engineering processes, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and team workflows.
Diagnose and resolve complex production issues while leading root-cause analysis efforts and implementing long-term improvements to reliability and performance.
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code standards, Terraform automation, GitLab pipeline optimization, and cloud modernization efforts.
Support technical hiring activities through interviews, candidate assessments, onboarding, and engineering team development.
Act as a technical lead for project workstreams, feature teams, or temporary delivery teams, coordinating engineering efforts and helping ensure successful delivery outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of relevant software engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.
Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment.
Strong experience building and supporting modern full stack applications, including frontend and backend development responsibilities.
Expert-level proficiency in backend technologies such as Python or Java.
Strong frontend development experience with Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
Experience building and consuming versioned RESTful APIs with published OpenAPI specifications.
Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and modern data integration patterns.
Hands-on experience with containerized microservices and AWS cloud services, including ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and source control management using Git.
Working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and their application within digital products.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and decisions to non-technical audiences and federal stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaAngularJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSPostgreSQLElasticsearchRESTful APIs

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementrisk evaluationknowledge sharingcode reviewfacilitation