Staff Software Engineer – Back End
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Staff Software Engineer leading Event Bus platform capabilities for Veterans Affairs at Ad Hoc. Improving integrations, developer tooling, automation, and distributed systems reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical design and execution of next-generation platform capabilities, including tenant on-ramps, schema management tooling, onboarding workflows, and developer experience improvements
- Establish technical patterns and best practices for tenant integrations, including lightweight clients, native Kafka producers, and protocol-specific listeners
- Provide hands-on integration support to producer and consumer teams across Veterans Affairs
- Turn integration lessons into reusable platform patterns, templates, documentation, and automation
- Partner with DevOps engineers to identify and automate operational toil
- Plan and execute technical roadmaps for complex projects with minimal guidance
- Work across multiple technologies and languages to understand integration challenges and contribute solutions
- Reduce ambiguity and technical debt through documentation, refactoring, automated testing, and system improvements
- Participate in planning and technical discussions with partners, product leaders, engineers, and stakeholders
- Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, implementation complexity, and risks
- Operate autonomously across the platform and make sound technical decisions
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and hands-on collaboration
- Participate in technical interviews and evaluate engineering candidates
- Participate in the on-call rotation and improve tooling, documentation, and runbooks
- Support technical demonstrations, proposals, and client-facing activities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
- Expert-level experience in at least one major technology stack
- Ability to independently lead complex technical work and help teams deliver successfully
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Ability to read, understand, and contribute across multiple programming languages, including Java, Ruby, Node.js, Python, and Go
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and how Kubernetes operates under the hood
- Hands-on experience with modern continuous delivery tools such as Argo CD or equivalent
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
- Experience designing, building, or supporting distributed systems in production environments
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working independently on complex or ambiguous technical problems and driving them toward practical solutions
- Preferred: Direct experience with Apache Kafka or another distributed event-streaming platform
- Preferred: Experience designing or operating internal developer platforms, developer tooling, or paved-road solutions
- Preferred: Experience supporting integrations across multiple engineering teams, services, or technology stacks
- Preferred: Experience in government, healthcare, or financial services
- Preferred: Ability to work across organizational silos and build alignment
- Preferred: Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, ATO, or similar compliance frameworks
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
- Periodic travel to collaborate with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
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