Lead Software Engineer (Player-Coach) - Node.js/React.js - AI-Native Teams
Qover
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Job summary
Qover is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide one of our core product teams and champion AI-assisted engineering. You will stay close to code, customer problems, and operational realities while delivering scalable embedded insurance experiences for global brands.
You will mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and partner with Product and Design to translate requirements into robust software. This role offers flexible remote options and a Brussels-based hub to collaborate with the
Qualifications
- 7+ years building and operating production systems.
- Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex software.
- Strong fundamentals in design, reviews, and incident resolution.
- Experience with distributed systems and API design.
- Comfort with cloud environments and modern observability practices.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering outcomes end-to-end from discovery to deployment.
- Lead a product engineering team and drive technical quality and delivery.
- Mentor engineers and foster a high-trust, collaborative culture.
- Partner with PMs and Designers to translate requirements into robust solutions.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering with guardrails and measurable value.
Skills
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Job description
We are Qover, a leading insurtech scale-up that has raised $100 million. With an international team of 160+ colleagues based in Brussels and beyond, we help companies orchestrate digital embedded insurance experiences — creating meaningful connections with their community and enabling their success.
We are Qover, a leading insurtech scale-up that has raised $100 million. With an international team of 160+ colleagues based in Brussels and beyond, we help companies orchestrate digital embedded insurance experiences — creating meaningful connections with their community and enabling their success.
Since Qover was founded in 2016, our co-founders have had a clear vision of the future of insurance: it must be simple, transparent, and accessible across borders — a global safety net.
Our platform protects 15M+ users across 32 European countries and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, Canyon, and Monzo, among many others.
- Visit our website for more about what we do!
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead one of our 5 product engineering teams as a people leader and technically credible player‑coach. Accountable for your team’s delivery, technical quality, production ownership, and growth, you will partner closely with Product and Design. You will stay close to the code, the customer problem, and operational reality.
You will initially lead a core product engineering team (e.g., our Policy Management Platform or another strategic domain). You’ll help power embedded insurance experiences used by top global brands.
Turn AI into a competitive edge by championing the pragmatic integration of AI tools. You will identify high‑impact applications for coding agents, define clear guardrails, and mentor engineers to ensure human accountability for security and quality remains paramount.
- Cultivate a thoughtful AI culture: Use agents intentionally for implementation, debugging, and documentation
- Establish responsible guardrails: Maintain rigorous human review, testing, and ownership of AI‑generated output. Manage data sensitivity
- Coach for excellence: Emphasize strong technical specs and recognize when human judgment outweighs automation
- Measure what matters: Focus on outcomes like reduced toil and improved delivery flow over simply tracking tool adoption
- Scale best practices: Collaborate with Principal and Platform engineers to refine reusable tooling across the organization
You will own engineering outcomes end-to-end, contributing from discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Champion team execution: Partner with the PM to turn priorities into realistic plans with a predictable, high‑quality shipping cadence
- Cultivate engineering growth: Mentor and develop your team through consistent feedback, performance management, and dedicated coaching
- Build a high‑trust culture: Promote psychological safety and accountability
- Collaborative leadership: Work with fellow Engineering Leads to optimize cross‑team workflows without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Player‑coach mentality: Engage with the codebase for credible technical guidance—participating in designs, reviews, and incident resolution
- Elevate the quality bar: Own standards for code quality, automated testing, security, observability, and maintainability
- Operational Resilience: Run and iterate on what you build, leading blameless post‑mortems and fixing recurring debt
- Pragmatic decision‑making: Balance speed, security, and technical debt to deliver maximum product value
- Leverage expertise: Partner with Principal Engineers on complex missions while keeping daily technical ownership within your team
- Strategic partnership: Act as the PM’s technical counterpart, collaborating on scoping and sequencing to prevent delivery surprises
- Meaningful discovery: Provide technical perspective to translate vague requirements into robust software solutions
- Design alignment: Explicitly discuss usability and technical feasibility trade‑offs with Designers
- Transparent communication: Articulate technical trade‑offs to stakeholders, justifying decisions with a focus on practical outcomes
- Eliminate friction: Reduce operational toil, recurring bugs, and unnecessary hand‑offs
- Champion shared tooling: Integrate shared platform capabilities and security best practices
- Empower autonomy: Help engineers become confident decision‑makers, reducing reliance on any single individual
- Technical leadership and depth: 7+ years building and operating production systems. Strong engineering fundamentals. Hands‑on enough to guide design, review code, and solve complex problems. Qover’s platform relies on TypeScript, Node.js, React, and MongoDB, but we welcome leaders from ecosystems like Java, C#, Go, or Python. Experience with distributed systems and API design is key
- Engineering ownership: Responsibility for quality, security, maintainability, and operability. You provide high‑signal code reviews
- Delivery foundations: Experience with RESTful APIs, 3rd‑party integrations, data consistency, Git workflows, CI/CD, and automated deployments
- Cloud and operations: Experience with cloud environments (GCP preferred). Docker/Kubernetes familiarity is a plus. Comfortable improving observability and incident response
- People leadership: Experience managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Able to create clarity and give direct feedback
- Product partnership: Skilled at working with stakeholders to make pragmatic trade‑offs on scope, risk, and delivery
- AI‑native engineering leadership: Hands‑on experience using coding agents/AI tools to improve throughput and quality. Accountable for responsible adoption, defining workflows, and measuring value without compromising human oversight
- Domain experience: Experience in insurance, fintech, or another regulated domain is a strong advantage
- Reliable delivery: Roadmap goals translate into results through transparent sequencing and reduced delivery surprises
- Team growth and engagement: High engagement and trust empower engineers; performance coaching resolves talent challenges
- System resilience: Measurable upward trend in quality/stability, with fewer recurring defects and reduced friction
- Product‑engineering partnership: Unified team making collaborative trade‑offs instead of rigid hand‑offs
- Effective AI‑assisted engineering: Pragmatic adoption of AI tools that accelerates development speed without compromising human‑led standards
- The pragmatic player‑coach: Cares about clean code and healthy practices; knows when to prioritize shipping and learning
- The adaptable explorer: Comfortable in a scale‑up with shifting priorities. Actively uses AI‑assisted engineering where it creates value
- The communicator: Communicates clearly, asks good questions, and collaborates well across functions
- The fun co‑worker: Constructive, kind, and collaborative. Enjoys mentoring and sharing knowledge
- A flexible work environment: up to three days remote per week and the ability to work from anywhere one month per year
- 28 days off (8 extra days on top of the 20 legal days)
- A nice working space in a great location in Brussels: Qover‑dedicated space at WeWork (Rue du Commerce 31) with a large terrace to enjoy team events
- A positive company culture that values teamwork and taking initiative but also having fun, with regular social events
- The chance to work among entrepreneurial people, giving you the opportunity to learn and have a real impact at one of Europe’s fastest‑growing insurtechs
A collaborative and communal environment where everyone is welcomed, valued and accepted regardless of their nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, philosophical or political views, etc
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