Senior Software Engineer - Front End
Company: Ad Hoc
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 15, 2026
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Job Description:
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. Primary Responsibilities: Senior Software Engineer -Front
End serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team,
with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership,
guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from
leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of
meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior
Software Engineer - Front End impacts the long-term goals of the
program, while contributing to the implementation of the program’s
development strategy. You may serve as the disciplines primary lead
when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential
skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and
practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer -
Front End include: • Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and
ownership of their contributions to an application code base •
Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas
and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those
systems • Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the
systems they own, using incidents to inform educational
opportunities and system improvements • Actively mentors and
assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills •
Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with
team members and clients • Participates in technical interviews
with new candidates • Strong influential skills to propose and
evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems •
May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team • May leads
small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects •
Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients,
stakeholders, partners, and other engineers Basic Qualifications: •
Experienced interfacing with RESTful APIs • Experienced with modern
JavaScript (await/async) • Experienced with React (ideally, highly
experienced) • Experienced/comfortable with
implementing/maintaining token-based authentication features
(including an open need to build integration with login.gov) •
Comfortable interfacing with government clients and UX designers to
establish requirements • Comfortable mentoring and leading junior
dev 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
Keywords: Ad Hoc, Lake Forest , Senior Software Engineer - Front End, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
