Staff Software Engineer (UI & Applied AI)

Staff Software Engineer - IE07IE Weu2019re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals u2013 and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. The Hartford is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (UI & Applied AI) to join the Innovation Value Stream within Personal Linesu2014an area where engineers help set the trend for AI platforms across the PL business. This is a rare opportunity to work on a greenfield initiative, shaping how The Hartford designs and delivers nextu2011generation AIu2011enabled user experiences. In this role, you will define and build the UI foundation for emerging AI and agentic capabilities, including chat experiences, AI assistant panels (copilots), fileu2011upload for RAG pipelines, agent tools, MCPu2011based interactions, and integration with API gateways exposing agent ADK runner . You will work directly with a collaborative, productu2011based team that values: + Rapid prototyping to prove ideas early + Enterprise best practices and alignment with EA and AI governance + Continuous learning and experimentation + Delivering cuttingu2011edge experiences that create measurable value for crossu2011functional Personal Lines users (pricing analysts, CSRs, inspection contractors, underwriting, and product partners) This role offers the opportunity to make a significant strategic and technical impact, influencing the future of AIu2011driven application experiences across the Personal Lines organization. Responsibilities + Define and evolve the UI platform strategy, ensuring extensibility, futureu2011proofing, and readiness for rapidly emerging AI capabilities (interact with agent workflows, interactive chat, Agent 2 Agent, agent tool use selection, RAG workflows). + Provide technical leadership, maintaining architectural alignment and the integrity of the UI platform and application environment. + Collaborate with platform teams to safely leverage AI and agentic capabilities through stable, versioned APIs and shared governance. + Champion innovation, experimenting with modern frameworks, architectures, and AI-driven enhancements that improve user experience and accelerate delivery. + Partner with Product, Design, Architecture, Data Science, and Platform teams to evolve ideas from POCs u2192 MVPs u2192 scalable production experiences. + Design humanu2011inu2011theu2011loop workflows (approve/override/rollback, review gates, clear status indicators) to ensure safe and transparent AI decision-making. + Plan integration patterns for GCP Agent SDK/Agent Builder, AWS Bedrock/Anthropic, Snowflake/data products, and retrieval/embedding pipelines using typed SDKs/APIs. + Architect AI UX patterns such as copilots, chat flows, inline recommendations, tool-triggering actions, and tokenu2011streaming guidance with cancel/retry and partial updates. + Define prompt templates, guardrails, and explainability signals (confidence, sources, metadata) for safe AI usage directly in the UI flows. + Lead handsu2011on UI development in TypeScript using Angular and/or React, delivering modern single-page applications across CSR, SSR, and hybrid rendering models (Angular Universal, Next.js). + Build AI-driven user interaction surfaces: side panels, chats, inline instruction flows, streaming experiences, and contextual tool invocation. + Develop file-upload and documentu2011management interfaces integrated with RAG pipelines, presenting detailed ingestion lifecycle statuses (uploaded u2192 queued u2192 extraction u2192 embedding u2192 retrieval-ready u2192 processed). + Integrate UI components with MCP (Model Context Protocol), agent tools, and API gateways, supporting multi-step agent workflows (planning u2192 executing u2192 tool call u2192 validating u2192 complete u2192 error). + Improve UI performance through modular routing, lazy loading, optimal async patterns, reduced bundle sizes, efficient rendering, and clean component architecture. + Apply strong engineering practices: unit tests, integration tests, E2E, visual regression, prompt regression, and streaming/real-time test harnesses. + Monitor realu2011world performance and reliability using Dynatrace, Google Analytics, Cloud Logging, and Splunk, ensuring resilience and responsiveness. + Track behavior of AI workflows, tool interactions, streaming performance, and user flows to ensure correctness and minimize latency or failure modes. + Conduct code reviews focused on accessibility, maintainability, reliability, and adherence to engineering best practices. + Mentor junior engineers and raise overall engineering craftsmanship across the team. + Communicate risks, issues, decisions, and technical trade-offs proactively to stakeholders and leadership. + Provide ongoing support for platform evolution, architectural governance, and new AI capability onboarding. Qualifications Required + 8+ years building complex, production singleu2011page applications with TypeScript. + Expertise with Angular (v14+) and/or React, including hooks, state management, routing, forms, and component architecture. + Hands-on experience with SSR/CSR patterns and frameworks (Angular Universal, Next.js). + Hands-on LLM integration: retrieval/embeddings, tool/function calling, streaming responses, and assistant/chat UIs. + Familiarity with MCP, agent tools, and API gateways exposing runnables. + Cloud-native experience with GCP and/or AWS; integration with Snowflake/data products, CI/CD pipelines, and feature flags. + Production performance engineering experience: modular routing, lazy loading, async state patterns, bundle control, render efficiency. + Monitoring and observability with Dynatrace, Google Analytics, Cloud Logging, and Splunk. + Strong foundational skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs. Nice to Have + Micro-frontends (Module Federation). + Schema-first API contracts (OpenAPI, GraphQL). + Real-time UX patterns (SSE/WebSockets). + Experience with P&C Insurance workflows (rating, underwriting, CSR, inspections). + Background working with document ingestion pipelines, RAG, or agentic document workflows. Soft Skills & Practices + Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. + Experience in Agile/Scrum environments. + Curiosity, initiative, and a passion for learning modern technologies and participating in internal communities. _This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week_ _Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position._ Compensation The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartfordu2019s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is: $116,000 - $174,000 Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age

Created: 2026-02-06