Senior Software Developer (Remote First)
About The Position
Zensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses. As a leading InsurTech, we make getting the right coverage simple, fast, and accessible through a digital-first experience. Our platform combines advanced technology with deep industry expertise to deliver tailored insurance solutions that help businesses thrive. Zensurance has been recognized for its rapid growth and industry impact: ✅ Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 (2023, 2024, 2025), ✅ Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 (2024, 2025), ✅ Top Insurance Employers (2022). At Zensurance, we value ownership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team thrives on solving complex challenges, challenging the status quo, and making a real impact in an industry ready for change. If you're looking to build something meaningful in a fast-growing, customer-focused company, we’d love to hear from you! We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Business Acquisition Tooling (BAT) team! The BAT team is responsible for the Business Acquisition part of our process. This includes developing and maintaining our customer-facing app as well as maintaining the Quote domain (this is a central part of all of our processes). As a Senior Developer, you will utilize your technical expertise to hold high standards when implementing new features, mentor junior developers and align with our culture of iterative, autonomous development and deployment. Your primary focus will be on addressing security and scalability considerations, collaborating closely with the Product Manager, Engineering Manager and other developers to devise and implement systems and processes that enable the team to achieve its goals. This is a remote-first role within Canada.
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 back-end development using NestJS.
- Experience working with TypeORM.
- Experience working with PostgreSQL.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with microservices and microfrontends.
- Experience with or knowledge of gRPC.
- Experience with cacheing and queueing using Redis or similar technologies.
- Experience working with MongoDB is an asset.
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.
- Develop an understanding of company goals.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
