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Staff Software Engineer – Agentic Development & AI-Augmented Engineering

Talent GroupsHoboken, NJ🇺🇸United StatesPosted 4 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale AI-agent-assisted software development practices across engineering teams.
  • Design agentic coding workflows / loop engineering using Claude Code and similar tools.
  • Architect and implement MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and safe, well-defined tool schemas.
  • Establish human-in-the-loop checkpoints, autonomy boundaries, guardrails, and rollback strategies for AI-generated code.
  • Build evaluation frameworks and observability to measure agent output quality and identify regressions.
  • Define and review microservices and microfrontend architectures using C4 modeling and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
  • Drive TDD, contract testing, and engineering quality practices across teams.
  • Provide technical leadership across Java, Node.js, React, and Python technologies.
  • Design REST APIs and headless architectures that support both developers and AI agents.
  • Establish secure CI/CD pipelines for agent-generated pull requests and production changes.
  • Define security controls for prompt injection, tool permissions, and agent autonomy.
  • Mentor senior/staff engineers and drive adoption of AI-augmented engineering practices.
  • Create RFCs, architecture documents, and technical design specifications for complex engineering problems.

Core / Mandatory Skill Set

Agentic AI

  • Claude Code or comparable agentic coding tools
  • Agentic Software Development
  • Loop Engineering
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • MCP Server Development / Consumption
  • Context Engineering
  • Prompt Caching
  • Agent Evaluation
  • Agent Observability
  • Prompt Injection Security
  • Tool Permissions / Guardrails

Backend & Architecture

  • Java Microservices
  • REST API Design
  • Microservices Architecture
  • C4 Model
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • MongoDB
  • MongoDB Schema Design / Performance / Scaling

Frontend

  • ReactJS
  • Microfrontend Architecture
  • Headless Component Architecture

Testing & Quality

  • Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Playwright
  • Contract Testing
  • Pact

DevOps / Engineering Practices

  • CI/CD
  • Agent-authored Pull Requests
  • Automated Testing
  • Code Quality / Regression Testing
  • Security & Governance

Skills

Microservices
MongoDB
Node.js
TDD
Java
Playwright
Python
REST
React
SAFe

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