Senior R&D Software Developer Jobs in Erie, PA (NOW HIRING)

Date: Jun 8, 2026

Location: Erie, PA, US, 16530

Company: Erie Insurance

Division or Field Office: Office of the CIO Department of Position: Enterprise Tech Office Dept Work from: Corporate Office, Erie PA Salary Range: $99,336.00 - $158,679.00 * salary range is for this level and may vary based on actual level of role hired for *This range represents a national range and the actual salary will depend on several factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the skills, education, training, credentials, location (State) based on ERIE's geographical differences, and experience of an applicant, as well as level of role for which the successful candidate is hired. Position may be eligible for an annual bonus payment. At Erie Insurance, you're not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you're also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia. Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers—and to our employees. That's why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including: 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. Additional benefits that include 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; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

Position Summary: 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.

What You'll Do: 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.

Preferred Experience & Skills: • 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

What Makes You Stand Out: • 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

Duties and Responsibilities 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. The first four duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Capabilities Self-Development Collaborates Cultivates Innovation Instills Trust Decision Quality Values Diversity Nimble Learning Customer Focus Optimizes Work Processes (IC) Ensures Accountability Coding And Converting Information Management Skills Job-Specific Knowledge Proofing Text And Numbers Using Tables And Graphs Qualifications Minimum Educational and Experience 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. Additional 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. Designation and/or Licenses Certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred. Pursuance of advanced certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred. Physical Requirements Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (<20%) Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Occasional (<20%) Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely Driving; Occasional (<20%) Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%) Climbing/accessing heights; Rarely