About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer I, you'll deliver solutions to internal customers on one of these teams. You'll build the core capabilities and APIs behind our products, and the lightweight interfaces (e.g. web, browser extension) on top of them. You'll contribute to the patterns we share across the team and help the more junior engineers around you grow.

What you will do

• Deliver secure, high-quality, performant code, and build reusable solutions for others to use.
• Contribute to design: implement patterns, take part in design reviews, and help shape our architecture.
• Help improve how we test, automate, and deliver code.
• Support security, performance, and reliability, and take part in root-cause analysis on production issues.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.

Who You Are

• An experienced engineer (typically 5+ years) who delivers work with minimal guidance and contributes to design within a team.
• Built and operated production services and APIs.
• Comfortable building and deploying services in the cloud (AWS or Google Cloud), including containers.
• Strong 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.

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: $106,400 - $177,300 plus eligibility for 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.

Please review Symetra's Remote Network Minimum Requirements:

As a remote-first organization committed to providing a positive experience for both employees and customers, Symetra has the following standards for employees' internet connection:

• Minimum Internet Speed:100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload, in alignment with the FCC's definition of "broadband."
• Internet Type:Fiber, Cable (e.g., Comcast, Spectrum), or DSL.
• Not Permissible:Satellite (e.g., Starlink), cellular broadband (hotspot or otherwise), any other wireless technology, or wired dial-up.

When applying to jobs at Symetra you'll be asked to test your internet speed and confirm that your internet connection meets or exceeds Symetra's standard as outlined above.

Identity Verification

Symetra is committed to fair and secure hiring practices. For all roles, candidates will be required (after the initial phone screen) to be on video for all interviews. Symetra will take affirmative steps at key points in the process to verify that a candidate is not seeking employment fraudulently, e.g. through use of a false identity.

Failure to comply with verification procedures may result in:

• Disqualification from the recruitment process
• Withdrawal of a job offer
• Termination of employment and other criminal and/or civil remedies, if fraud is discovered