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Tech Lead (Remote First)

2 months, 2 weeks ago
Canada
Full-time
Senior
Technical Lead
Software Development
Agile AWS CI/CD Cypress Docker Git JavaScript Jest Kubernetes Microservices Mocha NestJS Node.js PostgreSQL Pulumi React REST API Scrum Selenium Storybook Terraform TypeScript
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Zensurance

Zensurance

Zensurance is Canada's trusted commercial insurance broker, offering low-cost coverage starting at $19/month. With instant quotes and savings up to 35%, they simplify insurance for small businesses.

Insurance
51-250
Founded 2016
$1M raised
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Description

  • Design, build, and implement scalable, user-friendly applications and libraries using Node, React, and TypeScript.
  • Collaborate with Product Management to decompose roadmap items into epics and actionable, appropriately sized backlog tickets.
  • Provide technical leadership by analyzing requirements, identifying risks, recommending solutions, and discussing architecture tradeoffs.
  • Implement systems and infrastructure from Staff Developer POCs in line with the team’s vision and security-first mindset.
  • Perform code reviews, ensure pull requests meet acceptance criteria, and use quality metrics to identify testing gaps.
  • Define and prioritize technical debt and bugs, incorporating incident management outcomes into remediation plans.
  • Manage and optimize integration of third-party systems to ensure reliability, performance, and security.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to expand technical skills, foster iterative deployability, and improve team delivery metrics.
  • Write unit and higher-level tests, apply systematic debugging techniques, and consistently produce production-ready, well-documented code.
  • Ensure modules meet technical standards for accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, operability, and observability while following Agile practices and contributing to continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • University degree or college diploma in a technical program or equivalent work experience.
  • 7+ years building rich, complex, scalable APIs, including integration with third-party APIs.
  • 5+ years building front-end web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
  • 2+ years of experience designing scalable and distributed systems.
  • Extensive full-stack experience with React, Redux, Node, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript.
  • Experience mentoring other developers and providing technical leadership.
  • Extensive experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies and familiarity with DORA metrics for DevOps performance.
  • Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems and working with microservices and micro front-ends.
  • Experience with JavaScript tooling such as Webpack, Babel, and Storybook, and unit testing frameworks like Jest or Mocha.
  • Nice to have: experience with test automation (Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, BrowserStack), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Benefits

  • Salary range $150,000–$170,000/year plus annual discretionary bonus and potential performance-based incentives.
  • Remote-first work environment with home office allowance and company-provided tech ("office in a box").
  • Flexible health and dental plans for families, including mental health support, plus health & personal spending accounts.
  • Parental leave top-up to supplement statutory benefits.
  • Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships, plus training budgets and mentorship opportunities.
  • Twice-yearly company-wide hackathons and regular tech talks, book clubs, and learning events.
  • Clear, well-defined career growth tracks and leadership support for professional development.
  • Weekly company huddles and virtual/in-person team-building events to stay connected.

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