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Symetra
Posted 60 days agoVerified live 1d ago

Software Engineer II, AI Enablement (Remote)

Brief overview

Remote
$97k–$161k/yrStated range
23 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
3 green cardsCertified filings
API DevelopmentWeb Application DevelopmentDockerCloud ServicesAI Coding AgentsLLM-powered ApplicationsAWS BedrockAWS CDKTypeScriptReactDocument ProcessingOCRData Extraction

About the company

Symetra is a financial service company that provides retirement, employee benefits, group life, and disability insurance.

Visa sponsorship history

4 years sponsoring, last filed FY2026

Data powered by U.S. Department of Labor. This does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
23H-1B approved
96%approval rate
5new H-1B hires
3PERM certified
$112,507median wage / yr
H-1B Petition ApprovalsVisas USCIS actually granted: the strongest sign the company sponsors.
20236
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LCA Certified ApplicationsAn early filing step, not a visa approval: it signals intent, not confirmed sponsorship.
20232
20241
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Green Card (PERM) FilingsCertified green card filings: a long-term commitment to international hires.
20232
20251
Top sponsored roles
Software Engineer IISenior Software Engineer IActuarial Associate IIISenior Analytics EngineerSenior Software Engineer
Sponsored employees from
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Job description

Summary

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals. As a Software Engineer II, you will build and ship features across products, write services and APIs, and contribute to code and design reviews.

Responsibilities

  • Write secure, high-quality, performant code and ship features across our products
  • Take part in code reviews and design reviews and contribute ideas to our designs
  • Test your code and help keep our automation and delivery running smoothly
  • Help investigate and fix production issues
  • Support interns and entry-level engineers as you grow

Skills

  • An early-career software engineer who ships quality code and is growing toward owning larger pieces of work
  • Experience building services, APIs, or web applications
  • Experience with containers (e.g. Docker) and cloud services
  • Solid 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
  • 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • An early-career software engineer who ships quality code and is growing toward owning larger pieces of work
  • Experience building services, APIs, or web applications
  • Experience with containers (e.g. Docker) and cloud services
  • Solid 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

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

  • Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
  • 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
  • Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
  • Company matching for giving back to your community

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