Staff Software Engineer - AI Agent Loop Architect

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

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.