Senior Software Engineer

We're Looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer!

Security Benefit is a leader in the U.S. retirement market with more than $75 billion in assets under management. We offer opportunities to thrive, innovate, and make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll play a key role in driving the future of the U.S. retirement industry. Security Benefit is a PLACE where we promise to help our customers To and Through Retirement.

We’re proud to have been recognized as one of the best in the business:

• Named to Ward’s 50 list of top-performing life-health insurance companies
• Recognized on list of Ingram’s Top 100 Private Companies in the Kansas City area in 2025

As a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, on the New Annuity Products team you are the technical through line for the product: you take business requirements, assess what the vendor system can and can’t do, identify which internal platforms are affected, and produce the architecture for how these pieces work together to deliver the product. You partner directly with Financial Products leadership, the vendor's engineering and product teams, and other internal platform teams as a technical peer, and you set the technical direction for the solution architecture and for the team's growing set of deployment and testing tooling.

This is a leadership and strategy role first. You will occasionally write code — to prototype a solution, evaluate a vendor capability, or step in on a hard problem — but your primary output is sound architecture, clear decisions, well-run process, and a team that ships new and enhanced annuity products quickly and reliably.

The Senior Software Engineer position reports to the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering and can be based out of our home in Topeka or Overland Park, Kansas, Des Moines, Iowa, or remotely for the right candidate. We work a hybrid schedule, offering flexibility to work both remotely and on-site.

• Business Partnership & Solutioning. Partner with business and product stakeholders to understand needs, ask the right clarifying questions, and translate requirements into workable technical solutions.
• Architectural Oversight. Own the solution architecture for how the vendor-built policy administration system and Security Benefit’s internal platforms work together to deliver new annuity products, ensuring designs are sound, scalable, and consistent with the system of record.
• Design Influence. Influence and guide design decisions with the vendor’s engineering team and with internal platform teams, without necessarily writing the implementation yourself.
• Automation Opportunities. Continually look for opportunities to automate manual processes at the seams between the vendor system and internal platforms — deployment packaging, testing, and operational handoffs — to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Documentation & Future State. Document existing processes, integration behavior, and system architecture across the vendor system and internal platforms, and define the future-state solution architecture and roadmap.
• Integration Facilitation. Facilitate the integration of internal systems and third-party / vendor solutions, acting as the connective tissue between teams.
• Roadmap Management. Own the solution architecture roadmap for how the vendor system and internal platforms come together to deliver new annuity products, balancing business priorities, technical dependencies, and vendor constraints.
• Vendor & Software Selection. Lead software and vendor selection: run technical due diligence, evaluate build-versus-buy and build-versus-configure trade-offs, and make recommendations to leadership.
• Release Management. Own release and deployment coordination across the vendor system and…