About the role

  • Tech Lead managing engineering teams for Zensurance's InsurTech platform in Canada. Designing solutions and addressing security and scalability considerations while fostering team growth.

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 and skills.
  • Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application.
  • Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability.
  • Consistently produce production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate.
  • Follow Agile practices, suggest improvements, and participate in team events.
  • Develop a strong understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives and help the engineering team deliver on those goals/initiatives.
  • Ensure technical standards such as accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability and observability are observed in the modules developed and maintained by the team.
  • Document decisions, research and guides to foster and build a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience.
  • 7+ years of experience building rich, complex and scalable APIs, including integration with third party APIs.
  • 5+ years of building front-end web applications using modern Javascript frameworks.
  • 2+ experience in designing scalable and distributed systems.
  • Experience mentoring other developers.
  • Extensive full-stack experience working with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/PostgreSQL and Javascript.
  • Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies.
  • Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure the DevOps Performance and experience in communicating what’s been measured with the team.
  • Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems.
  • Experience with Javascript development toolings like WebPack, Babel, and Storybook.
  • Experience with Unit Testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha.
  • Experience building and/or working with micro-services and micro front-ends.

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

BabelDistributed SystemsJavaScriptJestMochaNode.jsPostgresReactReduxTypeScriptWebpack

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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