Staff Software Engineer (Java)

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals. For more information, visit

Staff Software Engineers are the technology leaders of our highest impact projects. Your high energy is contagious, you actively collaborate with others across the engineering organization, and you seek to learn as much as you like to teach. You personify the notion of constant improvement as you work with your team and the larger engineering group to build software that delivers on our mission. You use your extraordinary technical competence to ensure a high bar for excellence while you mentor other engineers on their own path towards craftsmanship.  You are most likely T-shaped, with broad knowledge across many technologies plus strong skills in a specific area.  Staff Software Engineers embrace the opportunity to represent HMH in industry groups and open-source communities.

Area of Responsibility :

You will be working on the HMH Educational Online / Digital Learning Platform. The team builds highly scalable and available platform using Microservices Architecture, Java microservices backend, REACT JavaScript UI Frontend, REST APIs, Postgres Database, AWS Cloud technologies, AWS Kafka, Kubernetes or Mesos orchestration, DataDog for logging / monitoring / alerting, Concourse CI or Jenkins, Maven etc.. You will need experience in  Agent AI development  and proficiency in using AI-assisted engineering tools like  OpenAI Codex ,  Windsurf , and similar platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for  leading a team of developers and AI engineers  to build intelligent, autonomous, and highly scalable solutions leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies.

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 :

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