Senior Software Engineer II, AI Enablement

Symetra; United States; Hybrid; USD 128,700 - 214,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) plan with matching

Paid time off, including holidays

Community impact matching

Job summary

Symetra is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of high-quality solutions. You'll design core APIs and interfaces, mentor your team, and influence architectural patterns.

The ideal candidate has experience in cloud infrastructure, production services, and effective communication with stakeholders. The role allows for flexible full-time or hybrid arrangements, alongside competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery and shaping design within a team.
• Hands-on with production services and APIs.
• Advanced problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of secure, high-quality, performant code.
• Drive design and shape architecture.
• Mentor other engineers on the team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud)

Problem-solving

Communication

Use of AI coding agents

Tools

AWS CDK

TypeScript

React

Job description

About the Team

Symetra's AI Enablement team is a fast‑growing group inside our Data Analytics organization. The goal is to accelerate AI adoption across the company by building shared platforms, tooling, and patterns that let other teams integrate AI into their workflows, and by shipping AI‑powered applications for the most important use cases. We work in small, cross‑functional teams, build with the people who use what we make, and move fast. Our first product in production, docstream, is an AI‑powered document‑processing platform that supports several of Symetra's back‑end operational processes. We plan to continue iterating on docstream and to build out other products using the same modular architecture, integrating third‑party products where it makes sense.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer you will lead the delivery of high‑quality solutions on one of our teams. You will design the core capabilities and APIs that support one or more of our products, and the lightweight interfaces (e.g., web, browser extension) built on top of them. You will set patterns the rest of the team builds on, influence architecture, and mentor the engineers around you.

What You Will Do

• Lead delivery of secure, high‑quality, performant code, and build reusable solutions for others to use.
• Drive design: define patterns, run design reviews, and shape our architecture.
• Improve how we test, automate, and deliver code.
• Strengthen security, performance, and reliability, and lead root‑cause analysis on production issues.
• Mentor other engineers on the team.

Who You Are

• An experienced engineer with a track record of leading delivery and shaping design within a team.
• Built and operated production services and APIs.
• Hands‑on with cloud infrastructure on AWS (preferred) or Google Cloud, especially containerized workloads.
• Advanced problem‑solving and communication; comfortable working directly with stakeholders.
• Use AI coding agents effectively in your day‑to‑day work, with the judgment to know when to use them and when not to.

Nice to Haves

• 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 and Perks

• 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.

Compensation

Salary Range: $128,700 - $214,600 plus eligibility for an annual bonus program.

Work Authorization

Employer work visa sponsorship and support are not provided for this role. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at hire and must maintain authorization to work in the United States throughout their employment with our company.