[Remote] Staff Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. The Staff Software Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership for the design and delivery of a new cloud-native platform, translating business capabilities and architectural direction into scalable software. The role partners across engineering, product, architecture, and vendor teams to establish technical practices, guide implementation, mentor engineers, and improve platform reliability and delivery effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of platform capabilities
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Product to translate business capabilities and architectural direction into pragmatic, executable technical designs
• Make and influence technical decisions involving application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, data flows, reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability
• Lead technical design discussions and help teams evaluate tradeoffs rather than defaulting to a single solution or technology
• Develop production-quality software while remaining close enough to implementation to understand the realities facing engineering teams
• Establish and reinforce engineering standards and practices across software design, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and production readiness
• Identify architectural, technical, integration, and delivery risks early and drive them toward resolution
• Work across multiple engineering teams to maintain technical consistency while allowing teams appropriate autonomy in implementation
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the technical capability of the broader organization, and help develop future technical leaders
• Create clear technical artifacts, including design documents, architecture decision records, technical plans, and other documentation needed to make important decisions durable and understandable
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve technical planning, decomposition, dependency management, and delivery predictability
• Help establish sustainable engineering practices that enable teams to deliver quickly without creating unnecessary operational or technical debt
• Participate in production support and continuously improve the reliability, observability, and operability of the platform
• Provide technical leadership across a blended engineering model consisting of FTEs, contractors, and onshore/offshore vendor teams
• Work directly with vendor technical leads and engineers to ensure solutions align with established architecture, engineering standards, and long-term platform direction
• Review and challenge vendor-proposed designs and technical approaches when appropriate, using engineering evidence, tradeoffs, and platform needs to drive decisions
• Help ensure critical technical knowledge, architectural decisions, and engineering ownership remain within the organization rather than becoming dependent on individual vendors or delivery partners
• Support onboarding and technical integration of new engineering teams as the organization scales, creating patterns and practices that can be reused across teams

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Remote-first work arrangement

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