Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

We are building Security Benefit’s first true customer-facing digital experience: a unified self-service platform where our customers and the financial professionals who advise them can transact with us digitally, instantly, and securely. As the Staff Software Engineer for Digital Experience, you will be the technology lead responsible for enabling this platform end to end. This includes:

• Authentication
• The API gateway
• The unified data layer
• Fraud and identity
• The customer-facing applications built on top

You will be the senior-most individual contributor on the build, the technical anchor for our Digital Experience Center of Excellence, and the partner to our Enterprise Solution Architects on the architecture decisions that will shape the platform for years. You will remain hands-on, writing code, leading the hardest design work, and personally owning the most critical and complex systems. This is a Staff role with the influence of one and the build velocity of an early-stage team. There is a clear, public timeline. The work is visible at the highest levels of the company.

This role is fully remote. The Staff Software Engineer reports to the Head of AI and Innovation.

• Enable end-to-end customer-facing Digital Experience platform
• Shape an outcome-based delivery model for the Digital Experience Center of Excellence
• Set technical direction, patterns, and engineering standards for the Digital Experience Center of Excellence
• Lead the hardest design work, and personally own the most critical and complex systems
• Stay hands-on as an individual contributor
• Partner with our Enterprise Solution Architects on enterprise-level architecture decisions
• Architect integrations with core policy administration systems
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding tools at the team and Center of Excellence level
• Mentor Software Engineers across both the Digital Experience and the Experience Center pillars
• Establish performance, reliability, security, and accessibility targets for the platform
• Identify, prioritize, and act on technical debt, platform reuse, and developer productivity work
• Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risk clearly to stakeholders

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience owning the architecture of a non-trivial customer-facing system end to end on AWS
• Strong, current working experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse
• Daily, fluent use of AI-assisted coding tools
• Substantial experience building and operating customer-facing digital products in a regulated industry
• A track record of setting standards and architecture for a multi-engineer team
• Comfort operating cross-functionally with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, product, and design partners
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Requirements

• Substantial time as a Staff or Principal individual contributor on a customer-facing product or platform
• Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB or RDS)
• Experience with data modeling, performance tuning, and integration with application services
• Track record of helping a team adopt AI-assisted coding tools safely and productively

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual incentive bonuses
• 33 days of paid time off (including PTO, holidays, Volunteer Day, and days of significance)
• Paid parental leave after 90 days of service
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match, plus Profit Sharing & Savings Plan
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care
• Life Insurance to protect your loved ones
• Educational assistance to support your career development
• Associate assistance programs for personal and professional well-being

Company Description

Security Benefit is a leader in the U.S. retirement market with more than $60 billion in assets under management. We offer opportunities to thrive, innovate, and make an impact.

• Named to Ward’s 50 list of top-performing life-health insurance companies
• Recognized on the list of Ingram’s Top 100 Private Companies in the Kansas City area in 2024