Senior Software Developer; 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!

The Development Experience Group makes informed suggestions about architectural, tooling, frameworks, and ecosystem choices that affect the tool stack. This team takes into consideration the technical and product domain to help increase the autonomy of stream-aligned teams by growing their capabilities with a focus on problems rather than solutions.

Reporting to the Team Lead, Engineering, you will work with the Engineering Department to build the software that powers the Zensurance data collection, rating and pricing engines. Using Nodejs, Typescript, and Infrastructure as code, you will be a key contributor to our systems, ensuring high standards in software development, performance, and infrastructure stability.

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

• Take ownership of developing custom features and support their technical implementation across the full stack.
• Implement, test, and monitor features and functionalities, ensuring high quality and reliability.
• Develop, test, and maintain our codebase within the team’s domain, writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
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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.
• Discuss strategy of potential software solutions.
• Develop, test, and maintain codebase within the team’s domain.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Monitor system performance.
• Contribute to the adoption of Dev Ops practices by leveraging infrastructure as code for automation and system stability.
• Develop an understanding of company goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• 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 of hands‑on experience building rich, complex fullstack web applications.
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling (e.g., Webpack, Vite).
• Proven experience with Node.js, React.js and the Type Script ecosystem.
• Deep knowledge of React.js State Management
• Proven expertise in Mobile-First Responsive Layouts, ensuring high performance and seamless transitions across all device viewports.
• Advanced understanding of React rendering cycles and reconciliation. Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and unnecessary re‑renders.
• Prior insurance domain knowledge is an asset, but not required.

• Direct experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
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• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g.,
  Git Hub Actions
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$104,000 - $145,000 a year

The salary range for this role is $104,000 to $145,000, not including the annual discretionary bonus and any additional performance‑based incentives. The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market…