Tech Lead, Core

Summary

Join Zensurance's Engineering team as a Tech Lead and utilize your extensive technical expertise to guide the team's technical direction, aligning it with the company's culture of iterative, autonomous development and deployment. You will focus on security and scalability, collaborating with various teams to implement systems and processes that enable the team to achieve its goals. As a senior member, you will mentor other team members and manage your time effectively to meet deadlines. This remote-first role within Canada requires designing and implementing solutions for both front-end and back-end systems. You will work on exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies like TypeScript, NestJS microservices, and micro-frontends with React. Zensurance offers a supportive and collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.

Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience building rich, complex and scalable APIs, including integration with third party APIs
• 5+ years of building front-end web applications using modern Javascript frameworks
• 2+ experience in designing scalable and distributed systems
• Experience mentoring other developers
• Extensive full-stack experience working with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/MongoDB and Javascript
• Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure the DevOps Performance and experience in communicating what’s been measured with the team
• Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems
• Experience with Javascript development toolings like WebPack, Babel, and Storybook
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha
• Experience building and/or working with micro-services and micro front-ends

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design, build, and implement scalable, user-friendly apps and libraries using Node, React, and Typescript
• Collaborate with Product Management to examine, adjust, and break down roadmap items into epics and break down epics into discreet, actionable, appropriately sized tickets in the team’s backlog
• Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the team’s scope of activities. Analyze requirements, identify areas of concern, and provide recommendations based on your extensive technical background
• Using POC models provided by Staff Developers, design and implement systems and infrastructure in accordance with the team’s vision and culture
• Adhere to the organization’s security strategy using a security-first mindset
• Discuss various strategies and architecture and highlight tradeoffs for potential solutions
• Perform code reviews, ensuring that pull requests accurately reflect the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address
• Use quality metrics to identify gaps in the testing strategy
• Work with teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks
• Manage and optimize the integration of third-party systems into our infrastructure while ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of these systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify integration needs, implement solutions, and monitor system performance to guarantee uninterrupted service delivery
• Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into consideration outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the team
• Foster a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates
• Coach and mentor the development team and work to expand their technical knowledge and skills
• Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application
• Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability
• Consistently produce production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate
• Follow Agile practices, suggest improvements, and participate in team events
• Develop a strong understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives and help the engineering team deliver on those goals/initiatives
• Ensure technical standards such as accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability and observability are observed in the modules developed and maintained by the team
• Document decisions, research and guides to foster and build a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with test automation frameworks like Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, and BrowserStack
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Pulumi and AWS
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker or Kubernetes

Benefits

• Remote-first setup for added flexibility
• Home office allowance to create a comfortable workspace
• Top-tier tech: "Office in a box" with all necessary tech equipment
• Half days before public holidays: Enjoy half days before long weekends
• Flexible health and dental plans for families, including mental health support
• Health & personal spending accounts to invest in wellness your way
• Parental leave top-up, because family comes first
• Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships
• Opportunities to learn from industry experts and grow your career
• Weekly Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams
• Virtual & in-person team-building events to strengthen our culture