Software Engineer II, AI Enablement

Role Description

As a Software Engineer II, you'll build and ship features across our products on one of these teams. You'll write the services, APIs, and interfaces that make up our applications, take part in code and design reviews, and grow your skills with support from the senior engineers around you.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Company Description

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we're guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability. This means we provide products and services people need at a competitive price, we communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they're buying, and we design products--and operate our company--to stand the test of time. We're committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Join our team and help us create a world where more people have access to financial freedom.