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Symetra Life Insurance Company

Sr. Full Stack Engineer

Remote

Symetra has an exciting new opportunity to join our Emerging Solutions team as a Full Stack Software 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

You'll be joining an engineering team that is responsible for the care and feeding of an award-winning, high performing, reliable, secure, and scalable technology platform. This platform integrates best of the breed SaaS solutions in a cloud native environment complex architecture. We are looking for engineers who are passionate, team players and poised to make difference. You will understand the vision and work on strategy-execution to build the life insurance product on Serverless architecture.

This role is for Symetra's Swift program for life insurance - SwiftTerm or SwiftPerm.

What you'll do

  • You are fully responsible full life cycle of the code - design developing, deploying, and operationalizing.
  • Design, build, document, implement and operationalize highly scalable, available, reliable API's that are continuously deployed and updated through an automated CI/CD pipeline. Enable user analytics, logging, monitoring, instrumentation for all services.
  • Write unit, integration, and performance tests. Build shared libraries that can used enterprise wide.
  • Lead design and code reviews. Translating resulting software design and wireframes into high-quality code.
  • Collaborate with various team members and stakeholders on requirements definition and feature design and development.
  • Be an agent of Agile thinking to deliver testable and re-usable software iteratively.
  • Participate in requirements definition, UX development, and customer support.
  • Bring product mindset, identify opportunities for improving application functionality and performance issues by working with customers and architecture resources.

What will differentiate you?

Proven past technical accomplishments and a GitHub link

You are proactive, thrive in a startup like environment with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility building customer focus product.

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

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

Requirements

Your skills and experience

  • 5+ years of software development experience as engineer in an agile environment with excellent design, problem solving and debugging skills
  • 4+ years of hands-on coding experience in two or more languages - JavaScript, Type Script, AngularJS, NodeJS, Springboot framework, Swift, Kotlin, ReactJS or Flutter.
  • 3+ years of experience building and deploying efficient code, creating complex architecture and development patterns.
  • 2+ year of experience building Cloud native Serverless architecture, microservice design, integration patterns with domain driven and secure partner facing APIs. Experience with AWS Cognito, AWS Lex, AWS App Sync, AWS Lambda, Mobile App development is strongly preferred
  • 1 + Experience with NoSQL (DynamoDB) for data management and database scheme design is desirable
  • With little or no supervision, capable of analyzing, planning, designing and owning complex or vaguely defined issues
  • Collaborative attitude that incorporates various perspectives and puts customer before technology
  • Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
  • Experience in DevOps and Agile methodologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred

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-5000911359906
Employment Type: Other