Hiring: Software Engineer III (Agentic AI) Company: UKG Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:40:14 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Azure, C#, CI/CD, GCP, GitHub, Integration Testing, Java, JavaScript, LLM, LangChain, Product Management, Python, REST, React, Root Cause Analysis, TypeScript, Unit Testing, Vertex AI About the job Experience: •4+ years of professional software development experience, with hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic AI systems. Required Skills: •Agent Development: Design, build, test, and deploy production-grade AI agents using Google ADK and other agentic platforms such as the Anthropic Claude SDK and LangGraph. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for agent workflows, tool integrations, and multi-agent orchestration. •Platform Integration: Build agents that integrate with enterprise systems through tools, APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Implement custom tools, skills, and plugins that extend agent capabilities across UKG’s HCM platform. •Feature and Project Delivery: Own execution and delivery of agent-powered features and projects, working with product management and engineering partners to clarify requirements, manage priorities and timelines, and deliver high-quality results. •Technical Design: Participate in design reviews with peers, architects, and stakeholders. Contribute to the design of complex agentic systems and applications, including multi-agent coordination patterns, task delegation workflows, and agent communication protocols, with attention to performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. •Code Review and Engineering Practices: Review code developed by other engineers, provide constructive feedback, and help maintain a high bar for technical excellence, including clean coding practices, appropriate design patterns, unit testing, and observability built from the ground up. •Agent Operations: Support agent deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management. Apply practices for agent versioning, cost monitoring, performance optimization, and iterative improvement. Build observability into agent workflows, including execution tracing, decision logging, and failure analysis. •Testing and Evaluation: Build testable agents and agentic systems; define and automate tests using appropriate frameworks. Apply agent-specific testing strategies, including prompt validation, agent evaluation, multi-step workflow testing, tool invocation testing, tool validation, and adversarial scenario testing. •DevOps Model: Take ownership across the software lifecycle—from collaborating with product management on requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software in production. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. •Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or TypeScript. •Understanding of agent orchestration patterns, tool-use architectures, prompt and context engineering, and agent design patterns such as ReAct and multi-agent collaboration. •Proficiency with cloud technologies such as GCP (including Vertex AI and Google ADK), Azure (including Azure OpenAI), or AWS (including Bedrock), and version control systems such as GitHub. •Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering high-quality agent-powered solutions. •Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, collaborate in a team environment, and incorporate feedback into design and implementation decisions. •Operational familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production observability tools. •Knowledge of agile software development methodologies. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!