Staff Software Engineer

Security Benefit

Staff Software Engineer leading technology for customer-facing digital platform at Security Benefit. Overseeing architecture and mentoring engineers in a regulated financial services environment.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeRemote • Lexington • Kentucky • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDB

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Enable end-to-end customer-facing Digital Experience platform, including authentication, the API gateway, the unified data layer, fraud and identity, and the application layer on top.
Shape an outcome-based delivery model for the Digital Experience Center of Excellence: tie engineering investment to measurable customer and business outcomes, validate impact after launch, and prioritize platform work by the outcomes it unlocks.
Set technical direction, patterns, and engineering standards for the Digital Experience Center of Excellence, including coordination with the Senior Software Engineer leading our internal Experience Center build.
Lead the hardest design work, and personally own the most critical and complex systems.
Stay hands-on as an individual contributor: write, review, and ship production code; pair with engineers across both pillars; lead incident response on the most consequential systems.
Partner with our Enterprise Solution Architects on enterprise-level architecture decisions (auth and identity, API and integration strategy, data architecture, fraud, vendor selection) and represent Digital Experience engineering in those conversations.
Architect integrations with our core policy administration systems, our fraud and identity providers, our internal generative AI platform, and our identity providers.
Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) at the team and Center of Excellence level, including the patterns, guardrails, and reviews that make AI-assisted development safe and productive in regulated software.
Mentor Software Engineers across both the Digital Experience and the Experience Center pillars, and act as the technical career model for our IC track.
Establish performance, reliability, security, and accessibility targets for the platform, and own the engineering practice that keeps us within them.
Identify, prioritize, and act on technical debt, platform reuse, and developer productivity work that compound team velocity over time.
Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risk clearly to engineering leadership, product partners, and senior business and technology stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time as a Staff or Principal individual contributor on a customer-facing product or platform.
Demonstrated experience owning the architecture of a non-trivial customer-facing system end to end on AWS, including serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB or RDS) and modern CI/CD.
Strong, current working experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse, including data modeling, performance tuning, and integration with application services.
Daily, fluent use of AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent), and a track record of helping a team adopt them safely and productively.
Substantial experience building and operating customer-facing digital products in a regulated industry (financial services, insurance, healthcare, or similar).
A track record of setting standards and architecture for a multi-engineer team and of mentoring Software Engineers into the next level of their career.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and annual incentive bonuses to reward your contributions.
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 to give you peace of mind.
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 your personal and professional well-being.