Senior Software Engineer – Backend Focused
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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer building scalable digital services for federal agencies at Ad Hoc. Developing high-availability applications, mentoring engineers, and advancing accessible government technology.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as an experienced individual contributor within a software engineering team
- Further develop leadership, guidance and mentoring skills
- Support meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements with minimal leadership oversight
- Contribute to the program’s development strategy and long-term goals
- Demonstrate ownership and accountability for contributions to an application code base
- Coordinate integration with adjacent technical systems and ecosystems
- Diagnose and resolve issues in owned systems, using incidents to drive education and system improvements
- Mentor and assist junior engineers
- Communicate technical issues and developments with team members and clients
- Participate in technical interviews
- Propose and evaluate approaches to technical and process problems
- Lead small, less critical, temporary team structures and projects when needed
- Present design documents and system diagrams to clients, stakeholders, partners and engineers
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience developing systems and applications for Federal clients
- Experience with enterprise-level, high-availability application development
- Object-oriented design (OOD) patterns for separation of concerns, code reusability, security and performance
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React.js, Angular, and Node.js
- Experience developing clean, well-architected code
- Cloud computing experience with Cloud Foundry, Azure or AWS
- Continuous integration and deployment experience such as Jenkins
- Source Control Management, preferably Git/GitHub
- Strong database skills; preferably Oracle or SQL Server
- SQL or similar query language and data constructs including XML and JSON
- Experience developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP, JSON), ETL jobs and APIs (Service-oriented architectures)
- Hands-on experience applying digital accessibility standards and best practices, including Section 508 and WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA
- Experience using accessibility testing tools such as Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse and screen readers (JAWS/NVDA)
- Strong understanding of functional, SOA and performance testing methodologies
- Prior government contracting experience preferred
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
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