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Symmetry · 14 hours ago

Retirement AI Senior Staff Engineer

Buffalo-Niagara Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$213K/yr - $236K/yr

10+ years exp

Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. The role involves designing, building, and shipping production features that utilize large language models to solve real customer problems, while collaborating closely with product and design teams.

Bookkeeping and PayrollComputerFinTechInternetSoftware

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship production features that use large language models to solve real customer problems

Implement and integrate LLMs (prompting, tool loops, evaluation, monitoring, etc)

Make pragmatic architecture decisions, de-risk tricky areas, and keep the work unblocked

Partner with product and design to refine ideas, shape scope, and iterate quickly on end-to-end experiences

Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with existing systems and unblock dependencies

Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well

Qualification

LLM implementationSoftware engineeringRuby on RailsReactAPIsData flowsCross-functional coordinationBias to actionClear communication

Required

10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms

Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered features (e.g., RAG flows, agents, tool loops, workflow automation with language models, etc)

Strong engineering skills (e.g., services, APIs, data flows); comfortable spending most of your time coding

Experience running or heavily contributing to a team's execution: sprints, Jira, scoping, and cross-functional coordination

Bias to action: you default to trying things, iterating, and learning, rather than getting stuck in analysis or waiting for direction

Clear communicator who can work well with product, design, and other engineering teams without needing a formal management title

Experienced with Ruby on Rails (or any comparable language), React (or any comparable library)

Benefits

Stock equity is additional.

Company

Symmetry

Symmetry is the leading payroll tax compliance infrastructure for payroll providers, HR tech platforms and large employers.

Founded in 1984

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.symmetry.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

unknown

2021-07-08Acquired

Leadership Team

Elizabeth Oviedo

Chief Executive Officer

Raj Nijjer

Chief Marketing Officer

Recent News

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