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Symetra Life Insurance Company

Full Stack Engineer

Remote

Symetra has an exciting new opportunity to join our team as a Full Stack Engineer!

Symetra has headquarters is in Bellevue, Washington. It has over 2000 employees with more than $60 Billion in assets. Established in 1957, and well positioned to execute on growth plans.

At Symetra, we 're focused on building solutions which can help people gain financial freedom. We are disrupting Insurance industry. We won 2021 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for Financial Services and 2022 Celent Model Insurer Award. We're creating new products to redefine the industry, and we invite you to join us in the adventure! This is a unique opportunity to innovate and bring dependable solutions with delightful user experiences to our customers.

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About the role

We have a number of initiatives, applications and tools that need support from someone with full-stack engineering skills. They include:

  • Creating FAC Exchange API integrations to send policy information to our reinsurers
  • Supporting Web Services to provide real-time access to our legacy policy administration system
  • Building out illustration APIs to integrate with an external illustration partner
  • Supporting the move from Kong to Apigee for API management
  • Enhancing the cloud-native NB Checklist application to improve new business processing
  • Supporting Swish to upload New Business forms into our workflow system
  • Supporting cloud-based LEAP component to search for previously purchased insurance
  • Enhancing Compass CRM functionality
  • Enhancing Inforce Illustration APIs for new products.

This is clearly more work than one individual can do. We need someone to help lead, build and teach the rest of our team in development and support of these items.

What you will do

  • Be part of Agile teams working to move our legacy applications to more modern platforms
  • Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand and improve feature design and development
  • Be responsible for the full lifecycle of your code - from development and testing to implementation and operational support
  • Build and maintain APIs that are highly available, scalable and reusable
  • Enable analytics, logging and monitoring for all services
  • Support continuous deployments through automated CI/CD pipelines
  • Lead and participate in design and code reviews
  • Evaluate new systems for their compliance to technical best practices
  • Support division-wide technical stewardship activities
  • Mentor current Life IT staff on full-stack processes and skills.

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? Want more details? Check out our Symetra Benefits Overview opens a pdf file

Salary Range: $115,600 - $192,700 plus eligibility for the company annual bonus program target of 10%.

Requirements

Your experience and skills

We want you to be proficient in the major soft skills - good communication, good team player, self-starter, organized, etc. But what is MOST IMPORTANT is we want you to be a self-starter, committed learner and great teammate.

In addition, we'd like you to have some of the following technical skills:

  • Languages: Python, AngularJS, JavaScript, C#, HTML, PowerShell, WSDL
  • Web Technologies: Servlets, EJB, XSLT, Java Applets
  • Server Platforms: NodeJS, IIS, WebSphere
  • Databases: DynamoDB, SQL Server, MySQL
  • Development Tools: Eclipse, ADO Repos/Pipelines, Angular, Visual Studio
  • Web Services: SOAP and REST APIs
  • Cloud Technologies: API Gateway, AWS Cognito, AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
  • Others: ACORD, XML, JSON, OpenAPI

We empower inclusion

At Symetra, we aspire to be the most inclusive insurance company in the country. We're building a place where every employee feels valued, respected, and has opportunities to contribute.

Inclusion is about recognizing our assumptions, considering multiple perspective, and removing barriers. We accept and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives, because lifting each other up fuels thought and builds a stronger, more innovative company. We invite you to learn more about our efforts here: Here

Creating a world where more people have access to financial freedom

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.

For more information about our careers visit:

www.symetra.com/careers

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.

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Job ID: Symetra-5000952369406
Employment Type: Other