Senior Software Developer (Remote First)

May 3

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Zensurance

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Zensurance makes business insurance easy for Canadian entrepreneurs.

Commercial business insurance • Property and Casualty Insurance • Canada Insurance • Startup Insurance

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💰 Series B on 2020-08

Description

• Being a technology-forward company, we utilize various tools and platforms to create fun, engaging and meaningful work experiences for our employees, as a remote-first company. • The Enabling team makes informed suggestions about architectural, tooling, frameworks, and ecosystem choices that affect the tool stack. This team takes into consideration the technical and product domain to help increase the autonomy of stream-aligned teams by growing their capabilities with a focus on problems rather than solutions. • You will work with the Engineering Department to build the software that powers the Zensurance data collection, rating and pricing engines. Using Nodejs, Typescript, and Infrastructure as code, you will be responsible for providing technical guidance and enforcing best practices in software development and infrastructure. • In addition, you will be expected to coach, mentor lower-level professionals, and assist the Engineering Leadership Team in continuously improving craft capabilities.

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 and the TypeScript ecosystem. • Experience with monorepo maintenance (NX preferred). • Proficiency in JavaScript tooling, including NPM, PNPM, or Yarn. • Experience with AWS services ( EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, ECS, and/or Route 53). • A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code. • Experience with IaC and DevOps tools such as Terraform, Github Actions, Kubernetes. • Ability to communicate efficiently and work in a collaborative style. • A commitment to continuous improvement, continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• 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. • Champion DevOps practices within the Engineering Department, promoting automation by leveraging infrastructure as code. • Promote and advocate for 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. • Monitor system performance and proactively identify areas for optimization, reliability, and security enhancements. • 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. • Develop an understanding of company goals. • Perform other duties as assigned.