Engineering Lead - Backend

Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. The Engineering Lead is responsible for leading and monitoring project delivery, advocating for technical solutions, and communicating with stakeholders while driving improvements in software engineering processes.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Expert-level capabilities in at least one major technology stack, able to independently lead teams and ensure successful delivery
• Experience with Department of Veterans Affairs and/or government contracting
• Active clearance with Department of Veteran Affairs desired