Remote Senior Software Developer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Developer at Zensurance, a remote-first InsurTech company based in Canada. The role involves building software for the core team to power the data collection, rating, and pricing engines using Nodejs and Typescript. The employee will also be expected to coach, mentor, and provide technical guidance.

Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational, or academic program (preferably in Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years building rich, complex web applications
• Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems
• Extensive fullstack experience with Nodejs/AWS/Reactjs and the TypeScript ecosystem
• Experience with microservices
• Experience working with MongoDB
• Experience with back-end development using NestJS
• Understanding of web security best practices and data protection
• Knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code
• Ability to communicate efficiently
• Ability to mentor, coach, and work with others collaboratively
• A commitment to continuous improvement, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the development of custom features and drive their technical implementation
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for the team’s domain and drive its technical direction
• Suggest, design, implement, test and monitor features and functionalities
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration in accordance with established best practices and Agile methodology
• Evangelize proper software architecture and development paradigms
• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems for our customers, and in-house tooling
• Discuss strategy and outline tradeoffs of potential software solutions
• Develop, test, and maintain codebase within the team’s domain
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code
• Contribute to knowledge sharing of new technologies and solutions which fall within the team’s area of expertise
• Offer guidance and mentorship to junior and intermediate team members
• Develop and maintain documentation for new and existing features and integrations
• Perform other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for Canada’s fastest-growing #insurtech scale-up
• Primarily remote work environment available to everyone
• Laptop, extra monitor and main accessories are provided
• Extra home office and supplies allowance to help with work-from-home set up
• Comprehensive and flexible health and dental plans to suit all lifestyles, including mental health
• Health/Personal Spending Accounts to subsidize your healthy habits and purchases
• Parental Leave Top Up
• Weekly Friday companywide huddles for casual catch-ups with other departments
• Build next-level relationships with your peers through scheduled companywide virtual and in-person team-building events
• Be a part of something special. We are confident you won’t find any other insurance company like us :)