Ad Hoc LLC

Backend Engineer

• Software Engineer II - Front End/ Back End serves as an individual contributor within a team; with the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• You will begin to develop an awareness and understanding of the engineering function within the program, as well as interact with stakeholders.
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a moderate level of feedback and guidance from their team.
• Debugs, optimizes, maintains, and monitors their work in both test and production environments.
• Develops tests, monitoring/instrumentation, analytics, and deployment pipeline changes as appropriate for the given task.
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary.
• Builds technical and communication skills, gaining context around surrounding areas.
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns.
• Actively participates in design and asks questions to work toward understanding of technical trade-offs, interactions, and dependencies in the system.
• Development of influential skills to help make tactical decisions and support onboarding for new developers.
• Exhibits understanding for other roles and practices, including how they are intended to work together.

Software Engineer II – Front End/Back End

• Software Engineer III - Front End/ Back End (more back end) serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a little feedback and guidance from their team.
• Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers.
• Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas.
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary.
• Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties.
• Participates in planning sessions, building understanding of major architectures and design patterns.
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.
• Exhibits influential skills to drive improvements in team engineering processes and practices.
• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving.

Software Engineer III – Front End/Back End

Program Manager

• Program Manager serves as the senior delivery leader for the program, holding overall accountability for contract performance, team coordination, stakeholder relationships, and quality outcomes.
• Serve as the primary decision maker for the program and the direct point of contact for federal agency stakeholders.
• Hold overall accountability for contract delivery, quality, and stakeholder communication across all program workstreams.
• Chair the Management Review Board, allocate resources across delivery teams, and maintain direct COR communication on schedule, risk, and staffing.
• Coordinate across program teams acting as a delivery manager to ensure teams are working in coordination to deliver quality outcomes to the agency.
• Develop and maintain weekly status reports, program management reviews, monthly financial reports, staffing plans, and any additional reporting requested by the customer.
• Manage planned contract revenue, billable utilization, and gross margin achievement.
• Oversee subcontractor partner performance, ensuring all team members are held to the same quality and delivery standards.
• Translate customer vision into program direction, shaping success outcomes and metrics in partnership with federal product owners and agency leadership.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to agency stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on program direction, risk, and delivery priorities.
• Proactively identify and escalate risks with recommended mitigations, maintaining clear escalation paths and ensuring same-day resolution of governance and access issues.
• Manage contractual obligations and ensure all program activities are compliant, on time, and within budget.
• Lead hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management, and team development for direct reports.
• Partner with practice and growth leaders to identify and drive organic and new growth opportunities across the program.

Data Engineer

• Data Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in data engineering processes and practices.
• Builds data infrastructure, pipelines, systems, and tools with a little feedback and guidance from their team.
• Intermediate understanding of data management and transformation of raw data into interpretable information.
• Ability to create accurate and accessible datasets for Data Analysts and Scientists to interpret and use.
• Own maintenance of data architectures and systems.
• Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior data engineers.
• Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties.
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of data architectures and infrastructure.
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.

Data Engineer III

Frontend Engineer

• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a moderate level of feedback and guidance from their team
• Debugs, optimizes, maintains, and monitors their work in both test and production environments
• Develops tests, monitoring/instrumentation, analytics, and deployment pipeline changes as appropriate for the given task
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary
• Builds technical and communication skills, gaining context around surrounding areas
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns
• Actively participates in design and asks questions to work toward understanding of technical trade-offs, interactions, and dependencies in the system
• Development of influential skills to help make tactical decisions and support onboarding for new developers
• Exhibits understanding for other roles and practices, including how they are intended to work together

Software Engineer II – Front End

Full-stack Engineer

• Software Engineer II - Full Stack serves as an individual contributor within a team
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis
• Debugs, optimizes, maintains, and monitors their work in both test and production environments
• Develops tests, monitoring/instrumentation, analytics, and deployment pipeline changes as appropriate
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary
• Builds technical and communication skills, gaining context around surrounding areas
• Participates in planning sessions, building understanding of major architectures and design patterns
• Actively participates in design and asks questions to work toward understanding of technical trade-offs, interactions, and dependencies in the system

Software Engineer II – Full Stack

QA Engineer

• Quality Assurance Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices.
• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving.
• Estimates, designs, and develops test cases as well as manual and automated testing with little feedback and guidance from their team.
• Able to lead the development of a variety of test suites and partner with the team on including them in the software development lifecycle.
• Anticipates coverage needed for automation tools and frameworks and proactively provides it.
• Proactively writes boilerplate and exploratory test cases that cover unique or new functionality/ technology.
• Able to extend program testing strategies to provide plans to teams for new functionality/ technology.
• Participates in planning sessions, demonstrating understanding of overall testing strategy for the program, CI/CD delivery models, etc.
• Actively participates in design and ensures building systems that are testable in the outset.
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.

Quality Assurance Engineer – III

Designer

• Senior Designer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills
• With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the programs design strategy
• You may serve as the disciplines primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices
• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
• Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities
• Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs
• Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
• Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
• Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders
• Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts
• Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
• Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
• Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
• May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards
• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
• May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
• Participates in grading candidate homeworks and participating in panel interviews

Senior Designer

• Principal Software Engineer - Front End/Back End serves as a subject matter expert
• Provides mentorship associated with software engineering competencies
• Exhibits influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base
• Responsible for cohesively integrating industry software engineering trends
• Serves as a representative of the business unit, effectively communicating development strategies
• Advocates for innovation and collaborates with leadership
• Defines and delivers minimal viable products independently or with new teams

Principal Software Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team
• Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• Interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices
• Exhibits influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services
• Capable of completing cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks at the direction of a senior engineer
• Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects
• Constructs cloud infrastructure that supports applications and improves the broader developer experience for engineers
• Supports CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed
• Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis
• Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

DevOps Engineer – III

• Staff DevOps Engineer serves as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment.
• Lead and monitor the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• Proactively communicate with stakeholders and drive improvements in software engineering and DevOps processes.

Staff DevOps Engineer

Business Analyst

• Business Analyst III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in business analysis/requirements management processes and practices.
• Exhibits influential skills to drive delivery of identified requirements and implement process improvements.
• Leads requirements analysis activities and communicates impacts to delivery based upon the product roadmap.
• May participate in technical interviews with new candidates and develop/grade homework (if applicable).

Business Analyst III

• Software Engineer III - Full Stack serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team
• Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis
• Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior developers
• Assesses and diagnoses issues with the systems they own, prioritizing problem areas based on alignment with other practice areas
• Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary
• Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties
• Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns
• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews
• Exhibits influential skills to drive improvements in team engineering processes and practices
• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving

Senior Software Engineer III

• Plans and executes on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors
• Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities
• Reduces ambiguity in the systems they work with, including adding documentation, refactoring, and automated testing
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that theyve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions

Staff Software Engineer – Lead Developer

Product Manager

• Product Manager II serves as an individual contributor within a team
• You will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• Focused on program tactical assignments, but may support more strategic initiatives
• Works in conjunction with product leadership to help shape the vision and strategy
• Participates in the strategy process, serving as an active contributor
• Supports trainings and activities, inclusive of product strategy workshops
• Serves as a mentor to junior level team members
• Works with stakeholders to define key performance indicators