Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Cover Genius • Vancouver, BC

6h • CA$135,000 - CA$175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Personalisation team, you will own the design, development, and operation of our pricing optimisation and experimentation platform (BrightWrite). BrightWrite powers dynamic pricing, A/B experimentation, plan recommendation for XCover and RentalCover, serving millions of pricing requests per day at low latency, both as an embedded Python package and as a standalone API service.

You will lead the end-to-end delivery of platform features, from the experimentation engine and the pricing-expression language, through to event tracking pipelines and the analytics that Data Scientists and pricing analysts rely on. Because BrightWrite sits directly in the insurance quote path, your work has an immediate, measurable impact on conversion and margin across every partner.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, coupled with 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building highly scalable, data-intensive backend systems in Python
• Proven experience designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput services in the critical path of revenue — including API design, caching/CDN-backed configuration delivery, and performance optimisation.
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles with a demonstrated ability to design, build, and maintain clean, testable Python services and internal libraries consumed by other teams.
• Experience with experimentation or A/B testing systems
• Hands-on experience with production operations: Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability and monitoring tooling, and incident response for business-critical services.
• Comfort working with data pipelines and warehouses (e.g. Pub/Sub event streams, BigQuery) to instrument features and validate outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• experience building parsers, interpreters, or domain-specific languages in Python
• familiarity with applying LLM-assisted tooling to internal workflows.

Responsibilities

• Pricing platform development. Design, build, and maintain the core BrightWrite pricing services, pricing calculation, experiment platform and ML infra integration, keeping them fast, correct, and safe at scale
• Experimentation framework. Evolve the A/B testing framework so internal stakeholders can run reliable, revenue-safe pricing experiments with confidence.
• Personalisation and offer optimisation. Build the personalisation capabilities that tailor what each customer sees, build the data to serve the right product at the right price for every partner and customer segment
• System reliability and observability. Design robust monitoring, alerting, and graceful-degradation behaviour to protect partner sales. Proactively identify, debug, and resolve production issues.
• Cross-functional collaboration. Work closely with data science, the XCore and RentalCover teams to ship integrations, enforce pricing guardrails, and turn experiment data (pubsub events, BigQuery) into decisions.

Benefits

• Flexible Work Environment - our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior