The Hartford · 7 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer (UI & Applied AI)
Hartford, CT
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$116K/yr - $174K/yr
8+ years expThe Hartford is an insurance company looking to innovate in AI technologies. The Staff Software Engineer will define and build the UI foundation for AI capabilities, collaborating with various teams to create next-generation user experiences.
Auto InsuranceCommercial InsuranceEmployee BenefitsFinanceFinancial ServicesInsuranceLife InsuranceProperty Insurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
Define and evolve the UI platform strategy, ensuring extensibility, future‑proofing, 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 → MVPs → scalable production experiences
Design human‑in‑the‑loop 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 token‑streaming 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 hands‑on 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 document‑management interfaces integrated with RAG pipelines, presenting detailed ingestion lifecycle statuses (uploaded → queued → extraction → embedding → retrieval-ready → processed)
Integrate UI components with MCP (Model Context Protocol), agent tools, and API gateways, supporting multi-step agent workflows (planning → executing → tool call → validating → complete → 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 real‑world 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
Qualification
Required
8+ years building complex, production single‑page 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
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Short-term or annual bonuses
Long-term incentives
On-the-spot recognition
Company
The Hartford
The Hartford is an industry leading provider of property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1995-12-15IPO
Leadership Team
Christopher Swift
Chief Executive Officer
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