Software Engineer II - Front End/ Back End

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Software Engineer II – Front End serves as an individual contributor within a team. With the
support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting
scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. The work is front-end focused — you’ll spend the
majority of your time building accessible, performant, user-facing interfaces that real people rely
on to access government services. You will begin to develop an awareness and understanding
of the engineering function within the program, as well as interact with stakeholders.
Primary expectations for a Software Engineer II – Front End include:

• →Builds responsive, accessible user interfaces using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React, translating designs and requirements into clean, reusable, component-based code with a moderate level of feedback and guidance from their team
• →Implements interfaces to meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, ensuring products are usable by everyone who depends on them
• →Consumes and integrates RESTful APIs to power dynamic, data-driven front-end applications
• →Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis
• →Writes and maintains front-end unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, along with monitoring/instrumentation and analytics, as appropriate for the given task
• →Debugs, optimizes, maintains, and monitors their work across browsers and devices in both test and production environments, with attention to performance, load times, and cross-browser compatibility
• → Contributes to deployment pipeline changes and participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary
• →Builds technical and communication skills, gaining context around surrounding areas of
• →the system
• → Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major front-end architectures, design systems, and component patterns
• →Actively participates in design and asks questions to work toward understanding of technical trade-offs, interactions, and dependencies in the system
• →Develops influential skills to help make tactical decisions and supports onboarding for new developers
• →Exhibits understanding for other roles and practices, including how engineering, design, and product are intended to work together

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of engineering experience
• US Citizen
• Required to have resided within the United States for three or more years out of the last five years
• Will be required to undergo a background investigation to gain a Public Trust Security Clearance

• Strong front-end engineering experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Production experience building applications with React (including hooks, component composition, and state management such as Redux or Context API)
• Proficiency with semantic HTML5, modern CSS3, and preprocessors such as Sass/SCSS, including responsive and mobile-first design
• Demonstrated experience building to accessibility standards — Section 508 and WCAG
• 2.1 AA — and familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
• Experience consuming and integrating RESTful APIs (and/or GraphQL)
• Familiarity with front-end testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright
• Experience with modern build tooling and bundlers (e.g., Vite, Webpack), package managers, and Git-based version control
• Experience with CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Understanding of web performance optimization, cross-browser compatibility, and component-driven design systems
• Experience within an Agile Scrum environment