Senior Software Engineer II, AI Enablement

About the team

Symetra's AI Enablement team is a fast-growing team of builders inside our Data Analytics organization. Our goal is to accelerate AI adoption across the company in two ways: by building shared platforms, tooling, and patterns that let other teams effectively 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 currently supports several of Symetra's back-end operational processes. We plan to continue to iterate 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'll lead the delivery of high-quality solutions on one of these teams. You'll 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'll 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.

Why Work at Symetra

Here’s what some of our employees have to say about why they work at Symetra: 

““If you want to invest in yourself and build a career, this is a great place to work. If you don't want to put in the effort to learn the industry and become a student of the business (it takes real effort!), there are easier places to work.” - Cris H., VP Internal Sales

 

“"I am grateful to be here and I know how blessed I am to work for a company that truly cares about me as a person". - Nancy R., Sr. Investment Fund Analyst 

 

What we offer you

Benefits and Perks

We don’t take a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it comes to our employees. Our programs are designed to make your life better both at work and at home.

• 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
• Want more details? Check out our Symetra Benefits Overview

 

Compensation

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

Qualifications