Tech Lead; Remote First

About Us:

Zensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses.

As a leading Insur Tech, 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’re hiring three Tech Leads to support our Engineering teams across Business Acquisition & Tooling (BAT),
Accounts Tooling & Automation (ATAT), and Renewals & Pricing (RAP).

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 ensuring high standards for all visual components used across the company.

The ATAT team is responsible for building and enhancing internal tooling for the Digital Platform, with a particular focus on supporting the Sales team in managing accounts.

As a Tech Lead, you will bring deep technical expertise to help steer the Engineering team’s technical direction, reinforcing 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, Team Lead, Engineers, and Staff Developers to design and implement systems and processes that enable your team to deliver effectively.

As a senior member of the team, you can articulate your thinking clearly, discuss complex ideas with ease, and manage your time well to meet important deadlines while also mentoring other team members as needed.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will design and implement solutions for both the front-end application and the back-end APIs.

This is a remote-first role within Canada. LI-Remote

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design, build, and implement scalable, user-friendly apps and libraries using Node, React, and Typescript.
• Collaborate with Product Management to examine, adjust, and break down roadmap items into epics and break down epics into discreet, actionable, appropriately sized tickets in the team’s backlog.
• Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the team’s scope of activities. Analyze requirements, identify areas of concern, and provide recommendations based on your extensive technical background.
• Using POC models provided by Staff Developers, design and implement systems and infrastructure in accordance with the team’s vision and culture.
• Adhere to the organization’s security strategy using a security-first mindset.
• Discuss various strategies and architecture and highlight tradeoffs for potential solutions.
• Perform code reviews, ensuring that pull requests accurately reflect the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address.
• Use quality metrics to identify gaps in the testing strategy.
• Work with teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks.
• Manage and optimize the integration of third-party systems into our infrastructure while ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of these systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify integration needs, implement solutions, and monitor system performance to guarantee uninterrupted service delivery.
• Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, taking into consideration outcomes of the incident management process and addressing them with the team.
• Foster a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates.
• Coach and mentor the development team and work to expand their technical knowledge…