Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Company: Ad Hoc
Location: Simpsonville
Posted on: July 1, 2025

Job Description:

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government. Work on things that matter Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology. Built for a remote life Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers. Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works. The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact. Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit. A Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack exhibits strong influential skills to represent the software engineering practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack include: • 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 they’ve 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 Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of engineering experience • Expert level experience in JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, Shell, SCSS, CSS • Proven ability to independently lead teams and ensure successful delivery Preferred Qualifications: • Good communication with the team, proactively seeking and solving issues 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 Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities weve outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $130,000 - $160,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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