Staff Software Engineer

Symetra has an exciting new opportunity to join us as a Staff Software Engineer!  

About the role

Ready to lead innovation and shape scalable solutions? Symetra is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technology excellence and mentor future leaders. In this role, you’ll collaborate with delivery teams and business partners to design, build, and maintain technological solutions that serve both internal and external customers. You’ll act as a technical leader and individual contributor, estimating development efforts, driving delivery, and ensuring high-quality outcomes.

We’re seeking someone passionate about building secure, scalable, and performant applications, with strong expertise in Angular, C#, AWS, and Agile methodologies.

What you will do

• Develop secure, high-quality, and performant code using modern languages and tools while adhering to team standards.
• Design and architect key solutions using microservices, patterns and cloud native services
• Ensure compliance with security, disaster recovery, performance standards, logging and monitoring and issue prevention.
• Create reusable solutions and participate in code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Define versioning strategies, oversee performance enhancements, and optimize system efficiency.
• Lead testing efforts: design plans, introduce new frameworks, and ensure coverage across teams.
• Drive automation for builds and deployments; define standards for CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventive measures.
• Define and implement design patterns, conduct design reviews, and guide architectural decisions.
• Provide cross platform collaboration by stretching beyond our program
• Mentor senior engineers and champion innovative solutions, tools, and practices.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and contribute to technical partnership agreements.

 

Why Work at Symetra

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

"Symetra will spoil you. There aren't many companies that will put as much effort into you being a success as Symetra. The culture will challenge you but simultaneously put you at ease. Failure is seen as integral to the learning process so there is less reason to be fearful of it." - Kerry S., Sr. Systems Analyst

 

“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

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: $141,600 - $236,000 plus eligibility for the company annual bonus program.

Qualifications

Who You Are:

• High School Diploma is required, plus a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field
• 12 to 15+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS/cloud technologies and experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in C#, Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular, and AWS Lambdas.
• Skilled in building high-performance, low-latency, secure, and scalable applications.
• Experience integrating external APIs and managing vendor relationships