Staff Software Engineer

HCLTech; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Pharmacy

Life Insurance

AD&D

Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

401(k)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

HCLTech is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer to define and scale how our engineering teams build software with AI agents. You will lead loop engineering design, safety guardrails, and the full agentic development lifecycle while remaining hands-on across Java, Node.js, React, and Python stacks.

You will set technical direction, define best practices for cross-team collaboration, and own architecture reviews and code-level decisions to ensure safe, scalable production codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement loop engineering workflows using Claude Code and similar tools, defining how agents plan, execute, test, and iterate on code changes
• Define human-in-the-loop checkpoints, autonomy boundaries, and rollback strategies for agent-driven changes
• Build evaluation harnesses and observability practices to measure agent output quality and catch regressions
• Design and review microservice and micro frontend architecture using C4 diagrams and Domain-Driven Design principles
• Own technical decisions across our Java microservices, Node.js services, React/micro frontend UI, and Python tooling
• Design REST APIs and headless component architectures that support both human developers and AI agents
• Establish CI/CD practices that safely incorporate agent-authored pull requests

Skills

Loop engineering

AI agents

Software architecture

Java microservices

Node.js

React

Python tooling

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 223,000+ people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.

About the Role We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can define and scale how our engineering organization builds software with AI agents. This role requires deep fluency in "loop engineering" with tools like Claude Code: designing the feedback loops, guardrails, and workflows that let AI agents safely and effectively contribute to production codebases. You'll need to understand the full agentic software development lifecycle, from context design through evaluation, deployment, and observability, while also being a hands‑on expert across our core stack

.This is a staff-level role: you'll set technical direction, define best practices for agentic development across teams, and remain deeply hands‑on in architecture and code.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement "loop engineering" workflows using Claude Code and similar tools, defining how agents plan, execute, test, and iterate on code changes Architect Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tool schemas that are legible and safe for LLM agents to use
• Define human-in-the-loop checkpoints, autonomy boundaries, and rollback strategies for agent-driven changes
• Build evaluation harnesses and observability practices to measure agent output quality and catch regressions
• Design and review microservice and micro frontend architecture using C4 diagrams and Domain-Driven Design principles
• Own technical decisions across our Java microservices, Node.js services, React/micro frontend UI, and Python tooling

Design REST APIs and headless component architectures that support both human developers and AI agentsEstablish CI/CD practices that safely incorporate agent-authored pull requests

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to [e-mail] for investigation.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• pharmacy
• life
• accidental death & dismemberment
• disability insurance
• employee assistance program
• 401(k) retirement plan
• 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year)
• 10 paid holidays per year

How You’ll Grow

At HCLTech, we offer continuous opportunities for you to find your spark and grow with us. We want you to be happy and satisfied with your role and to really learn what type of work sparks your brilliance the best. Throughout your time with us, we offer transparent communication with senior‑level employees, learning and career development programs at every level, and opportunities to experiment in different roles or even pivot industries. We believe that you should be in control of your career with unlimited opportunities to find the role that fits you.