IT Senior Software Engineer

Erie Insurance•Erie, PA

2d•$99,336 - $158,679•Onsite

About The Position

This opportunity is for a Senior Agentic Engineer in ERIE's AI Center of Excellence. The focus of this position is to help build, mature, and scale ERIE's Agentic Lifecycle capability by designing and developing agentic software solutions that support the software delivery lifecycle, including intake, requirements, technical design, build, testing, deployment, operations, governance, evidence generation, and traceability. This role will provide senior technical ownership for complex agentic workflows, reusable engineering patterns, orchestration approaches, validation practices, guardrails, and audit-ready outputs. The Senior Agentic Engineer will partner closely with architects, software engineers, platform teams, Information Security, governance partners, and delivery teams to ensure these capabilities are secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned to ERIE's technology standards.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and five years' related experience; or Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience; or High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience.
Possesses significant acumen in one or more practice areas with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in additional practice areas: front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, data science, required.

Nice To Haves

Senior-level software engineering experience in one or more areas such as full-stack, back-end, integration, cloud, platform engineering, DevOps, automation, or data-oriented engineering
Experience creating technical design documentation, reviewing code and unit tests, validating solution quality, and coaching or mentoring other engineers
Experience developing clean, efficient, maintainable code and supporting high-complexity or high-risk technology efforts
Experience with APIs, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, scripting, observability, secure coding practices, and production-ready engineering patterns
Ability to work through ambiguity, translate business and technical needs into reusable solutions, and collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience in AI-assisted engineering, GenAI, LLM-enabled solutions, agentic workflows, prompt/skill design, tool integrations, validation, evaluation, or human-in-the-loop delivery practices
Experience building or integrating agentic, automation, workflow orchestration, developer productivity, or internal platform capabilities
Experience designing solutions that produce clear documentation, evidence, traceability, validation results, and operational runbooks
Experience working in regulated enterprise environments where security, privacy, governance, reliability, and responsible AI practices are important
Demonstrated ability to establish new engineering practices, influence adoption, and help teams safely apply emerging technology to improve delivery speed, quality, consistency, and transparency
Certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred.
Pursuance of advanced certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred.

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, and maintains complex computer software.
Leads or participates in high complexity/risk projects including creating technical design documentation, performing code and unit test reviews, and validating the overall cohesion and quality of the project or support team deliverables with high impact.
Delivers high complexity/risk code/configurations under minimal supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud.
Develops high-quality software design, tools, and applications, by producing clean, efficient code.
Identifies, prioritizes, and executes tasks in the software development life cycle.
Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
Reviews and debugs code.
Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing).
Documents development phases and monitors systems.
Ensures software is updated and supported.
Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams, vendors, and portfolios.
Coaches and mentors peers and junior engineers.
May perform as a technical lead on a medium complexity/risk project or a production support team/service team.
May participate in Proof of Concept (POC) execution under the leadership of a Technology Architect or Principal Engineer.

Benefits

Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees’ monthly premium costs.
Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
Company-paid basic life insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Orthodontic coverage for children and adults
Adoption assistance
Fertility and infertility coverage
Well-being programs
Paid volunteer hours for service to your community
Dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.