Team Lead, Engineering (Remote First)

May 7

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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

• Zensurance is a scale-up InsurTech company that is re-imagining the commercial insurance market. • Empowering small businesses across Canada to thrive by offering an honest, simplified, and modern approach to insurance. • Utilizes various tools and platforms to create fun, engaging and meaningful work experiences for employees. • Mentor and coach the team to deliver quality features and products and review the code as necessary. • Set an example for the team to work cross-functionally and collaborate with other Team Leads. • Bring the right level of technical expertise to guide the team through serious technical challenges. • Report directly to the Director, Engineering.

Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program (preferably in Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience. • 6+ years of work experience in a software engineering or development capacity. • 3+ years of experience managing other developers on a product team. • Experience in the management tools such as goal-setting frameworks (i.e., OKRs, SMART goals). • Experience in giving and receiving constructive feedback, conducting performance management, coaching and mentoring less experienced professionals and effectively delegating work. • Ability to make decisions and achieve results in ambiguous situations, utilizing critical thinking and problem-solving skills. • Experience creating resilient and highly available integration with third party systems. • Experience with the following concepts and technologies: JavaScript ecosystem (MongoDB, NodeJS and TypeScript), AWS, Micro Services, Micro Frontends, Queue, REST APIs, and SOAP integration. • A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code.

Benefits

• Collaborate with Engineering Leadership - other team leads and engineering managers - on cross-team engineering topics such as goal setting and best practices. • Coach and Mentor team members to foster a self-organizing and cross-functional team. • Identify areas of improvement and growth for your direct reports and measure their progress toward their objectives over time. • Develop and monitor team goals and performance metrics. • Work with the Product Manager and team members to ensure business requirements are understood and broken down into actionable tasks that can be estimated by the development team. • Work with your team to develop, define, and maintain your team charter. • Promote knowledge sharing and an open, safe work environment. • Discuss strategy and outline tradeoffs of potential software solutions. • Collaborate with project stakeholders and the dev team to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems for our customers and in-house tooling. • Understand the processes and the workflows necessary to implement, test, deploy, monitor and release features and fixes. • Evaluate, define, and implement monitoring strategies and contingency plans for areas of the platform that rely on third-party vendors. • Perform administrative functions such as reviewing and writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, and writing up reviews or recommendations. • Foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement. • Attend and participate in leadership development training programs (internally and externally). • Perform other duties as assigned.