Senior Software Developer (Remote First)

About Us

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!

Responsibilities

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• Take ownership of the development of custom features and drive their technical implementation.
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• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for the team’s domain and drive its technical direction.
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• Suggest, design, implement, test and monitor features and functionalities.
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• Facilitate cross-team collaboration in accordance with established best practices and Agile methodology.
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• Evangelize proper software architecture and development paradigms.
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• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems for our customers, and in-house tooling.
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• Discuss strategy and outline tradeoffs of potential software solutions.
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• Develop, test, and maintain codebase within the team’s domain.
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• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
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• Contribute to knowledge sharing of new technologies and solutions which fall within the team’s area of expertise.
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• Offer guidance and mentorship to junior and intermediate team members.
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• Develop and maintain documentation for new and existing features and integrations.
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• Develop an understanding of company goals.
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• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

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• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational, or academic program (preferably in Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
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• 5+ years building rich, complex web applications.
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• Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems.
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• Extensive fullstack experience with Nodejs/AWS/Reactjs and the TypeScript ecosystem.
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• Experience with back-end development using NestJS.
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• Experience working with TypeORM.
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• Experience working with PostgreSQL.
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• Understanding of web security best practices and data protection.
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• Knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
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• A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code.
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• Ability to communicate efficiently.
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• Ability to mentor, coach, and work with others collaboratively.
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• A commitment to continuous improvement, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.

Nice to have

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• Experience with microservices and microfrontends.
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• Experience with or knowledge of gRPC.
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• Experience with cacheing and queueing using Redis or similar technologies.
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• Experience working with MongoDB is an asset.