Staff Software Engineer (Java)

Responsibilities:

• Be the technical lead for feature development in a team of 5-10 engineers and influencing the technical direction of the overall engineering organization.
• Decompose business objectives into valuable, incrementally releasable user features accurately estimating the effort to complete each.
• Contribute code to feature development efforts demonstrating to others efficient design, delivery and testing patterns and techniques.
• Review and structre code generated code by AI agents as well as developed by team
• Work on incorporating business logic, integration points and other conditions not captured by the agents in the generated code.
• Strive for high quality outcomes, continuously look for ways to improve team productivity and product reliability, performance, and security.
• Develop the talents and abilities of peers and colleagues. Create a memorable legacy as you progress toward your personal and professional objectives.
• Foster your personal and professional development continually seeking assignments that challenge you.

Skills & Experience

Successful Candidates must demonstrate an appropriate combination of:

• 6 – 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 3+ years of experience as a Staff or lead software engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM field.
• A portfolio of thought leadership and individual technical accomplishments.
• Full understanding of Agile software development methodologies and practices.
• Good exposure to AI Agentic development and reated tools
• Strong communication skills — both verbal and written.
• Extensive experience working with technologies and concepts such:

                o Behavior-driven or test-driven development

                o JVM-based languages such as Java and Scala

                o Development frameworks such as Spring Boot

                o Asynchronous programming concepts, including Event processing

                o Database technologies such as SQL, Postgres/MySQL, AWS Aurora DBs, Redshift, Liquibase or Flyway

                o No-SQL technologies such as Redis, MongoDB and Cassandra

                o Streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark or Amazon Kinesis

                o Unit-testing frameworks such as jUnit

                o Performance testing frameworks such as Gatling

                o Architectural concepts such as micro-services and separation of concerns

                o Expert knowledge of class-based, object-oriented programming and design patterns

                o Development tools such as GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, Concourse, and Maven

                o Cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure

                o Hands-on expertise with AI-powered development tools like Codex, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or similar.

                o Data Center Operating Technologies such as Kubernetes, Apache Mesos Apache Aurora, and TerraForm and container services such as Docker and Kubernetes

                o Monitoring and operational data analysis practices and tools such as DataDog, Splunk and ELK

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward fut