IT Software Engineer
About The Position
Designs, develops, and maintains computer software. Provides technical leadership on small, moderately complex, low risk enhancement projects or support teams, with little supervision. Delivers moderately complex code/configuration changes as part of a larger implementation under a moderate level of supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud. This opportunity is for an Agentic Engineer in ERIE's AI Center of Excellence. The focus of this position is hands-on development of ERIE's Agentic Lifecycle capability, including the design, build, testing, integration, documentation, and support of agentic software solutions that help delivery teams use AI-powered teammates safely and effectively. This role will work with senior engineers, architects, platform teams, Information Security, governance partners, and delivery teams to implement agent workflows, skills, prompts, APIs, automation, test assets, documentation, runbooks, and evidence artifacts. The Agentic Engineer will help turn emerging agentic architecture patterns into practical, reusable delivery capabilities that improve speed, quality, consistency, and traceability across the software delivery lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and three years' related experience; or Associate's degree in technical field, plus five years' related experience; or High school diploma plus seven years' related experience
- Possesses moderate acumen with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in one or more of the following practice areas: front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, or data science, required.
- Willingness to pursue a certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE required
Nice To Haves
- Software engineering experience in one or more areas such as full-stack, back-end, integration, cloud, automation, DevOps, platform engineering, scripting, or data-oriented engineering
- Experience developing, testing, debugging, documenting, and maintaining software or configuration in an enterprise technology environment
- Experience with APIs, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, cloud services, scripting, workflow automation, integration patterns, or reusable engineering assets
- Ability to work from technical designs and patterns, incorporate feedback, and produce clean, maintainable, well-documented deliverables
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across architecture, security, governance, platform, and application delivery teams
- Experience in AI-assisted engineering, GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, agentic workflows, reusable automation, and responsible use of AI in software delivery
- Exposure to agentic workflows, prompt/skill design, MCP or API-based tool integration, AI-assisted software delivery, or workflow orchestration
- Experience building reusable automation, internal tools, developer productivity solutions, test harnesses, or platform capabilities
- Curiosity and comfort working in an emerging technology space where standards, patterns, and operating practices are still being shaped
- Interest in secure engineering, auditability, evidence generation, traceability, human-in-the-loop review, and responsible AI delivery practices
Responsibilities
- Generates, reviews and debugs code/configurations that contribute to a larger product.
- Creates designs, unit tests, and code/configuration of that is reviewed and approved by a more senior engineer.
- Executes tasks in the software development life cycle
- Develops tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
- Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing)
- Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams and vendors within their area of focus (practice area).
- May perform as a technical lead on low complexity/isolated applications enhancements or a small, legacy production support team.
- May coach and mentor programmers, apprentices, and interns.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
