Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals. As a Senior Software Engineer I on the AI Enablement team, you will deliver solutions to internal customers by building core capabilities and APIs, while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to design and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Deliver secure, high-quality, performant code, and build reusable solutions for others to use
- Contribute to design: implement patterns, take part in design reviews, and help shape our architecture
- Help improve how we test, automate, and deliver code
- Support security, performance, and reliability, and take part in root-cause analysis on production issues
- Mentor junior engineers on the team
Skills
- An experienced engineer (typically 5+ years) who delivers work with minimal guidance and contributes to design within a team
- Built and operated production services and APIs
- Comfortable building and deploying services in the cloud (AWS or Google Cloud), including containers
- Strong problem-solving and communication; excited to work with other engineering teams and business stakeholders who are your internal customers
- Use AI coding agents effectively in your day-to-day work, with the judgment to know when to use them and when not to
- Deliver secure, high-quality, performant code, and build reusable solutions for others to use
- Contribute to design: implement patterns, take part in design reviews, and help shape our architecture
- Help improve how we test, automate, and deliver code
- Support security, performance, and reliability, and take part in root-cause analysis on production issues
- Mentor junior engineers on the team
- Built LLM-powered applications (prompting, retrieval/RAG, evaluations, agents, MCP)
- Familiarity with AWS Bedrock or other model-hosting platforms
- Infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK
- Frontend development with TypeScript and React
- Document-processing, OCR, or data-extraction experience
Benefits
- Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
- Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
- Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
- Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching
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