Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (Java/React)

Ad Hoc is a technology company that builds scalable digital services for government and other public-sector organizations. The Senior Software Engineer will independently modernize legacy enterprise applications, primarily through Java backend engineering, while diagnosing issues, reducing technical debt, coordinating integrations, mentoring engineers, and communicating technical solutions to stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a highly independent contributor capable of figuring out complex and complicated systems and problems with minimal guidance
• Proactively discern requirements and functionality by mining information out of stakeholders, partners, and existing codebases when documentation is lacking
• Modernize and navigate legacy applications, specifically working heavily with older Java-based, JSP-templated monolithic MVP systems
• Demonstrate expertise, accountability, and ownership of your contributions to the application code base, primarily handling Java backend work
• Maintain a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems
• Diagnose and effectively resolve issues with the systems you own, systematically reducing technical debt and improving system reliability
• Actively mentor and assist more junior engineers in the development of their skills
• Effectively communicate technical issues and developments with team members and clients
• Participate in technical interviews with new candidates
• Utilize strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems
• Present design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• • Demonstrates expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience in backend engineering, specifically with Java
• • Proven track record of working independently to decipher complex legacy systems (such as JSP-templated monoliths) and solve undocumented problems
• • Strong ability to proactively gather and define requirements in environments with limited initial guidance
• • Experience with frontend development using React and JavaScript to assist cross-functional team needs when necessary