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