Remote Tech Lead (Remote First)

Zensurance; Conception Bay South; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Home office allowance

Office in a box equipment

Half days before long weekends

Health and dental plans

Parental leave top-up

Education assistance reimbursement

Weekly Friday huddles

Team-building events

Job summary

Zensurance is hiring a Tech Lead to steer the Core and Payments teams from a remote-first Canada location. You will guide engineering, design scalable APIs and front-end apps, mentor teammates, and ensure security and performance in a fast-growing InsurTech environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architectural guidance, and collaboration with product managers to deliver secure, scalable solutions across web apps and APIs, with a focus on TypeScript and microservices.

Qualifications

• University degree or college diploma 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 designing scalable and distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring other developers.
• Extensive full-stack experience with React/Redux/Node/Typescript/PostgreSQL and Javascript.
• Extensive experience with Scrum framework and Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics to measure DevOps performance.
• Experience architecting large software systems.
• Experience with WebPack, Babel, and Storybook.
• Experience with Jest/Mocha for unit testing.
• Experience with micro-services and micro front-ends.

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 break down roadmap items into epics and tickets.
• Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the team’s scope.
• Design and implement systems and infrastructure following the team’s vision.
• Adhere to the organization’s security strategy.
• Discuss architecture options and tradeoffs.
• Perform code reviews and verify acceptance criteria.
• Use quality metrics to improve testing strategies.
• Integrate third-party systems reliably and securely.
• Define and prioritize technical debt and bugs with incident insights.
• Foster iterative deployability and low cycle times.
• Coach and mentor the development team.
• Debug system issues systematically and write tests.
• Ensure production-ready, well-documented code.
• Follow Agile practices and contribute to team events.
• Align engineering with company goals and initiatives.
• Maintain accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, observability.

Skills

Frontend development

APIs

Distributed systems design

Mentoring

Agile methodologies

System architecture

Education

University degree or college diploma

Tools

React

Redux

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

JavaScript

Webpack

Babel

Storybook

Jest

Mocha

Microservices

Micro front-ends

Job description

About Us: Zensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses. As a leading InsurTech, 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 Tech Leads to support our Core and Payments teams.

Our Core team is responsible for the engine driving the company’s key goals such as adding more relevant insurance products with great prices on our website and delivering relevant insurance documents to our customers with ease.

The Payments Team is responsible for understanding, evaluating, and improving our checkout experience which includes customer data confirmation, e‑sign, financing, payment collection and invoicing integrations backed by third‑party solutions.

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 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.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with test automation frameworks like Cypress, Nightwatch, Selenium, and BrowserStack.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Pulumi and AWS.
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.

$150,000 – $170,000 a year. The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $170,000, 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 range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees may also be eligible for performance‑based case incentive awards.

Join Our Engineering Team – Where Growth Meets Innovation

At Zensurance, we believe engineering is more than just writing great code. It’s about learning, growing, and building something meaningful together. Our remote‑first team is a place where you’ll be challenged, supported, and encouraged to thrive. Here’s what makes our team special:

• A Leadership Team That’s Got Your Back Our experienced and approachable engineering leaders aren’t just here to manage – they’re here to mentor, guide, and help you unlock your full potential.
• Fuel Your Growth We invest in your learning with training budgets, professional development programs, and mentorship opportunities. Want to explore a new tech stack or level up your skills? We can help get you there.
• A Culture of Sharing & Support From Power‑Ups and book clubs to tech talks and hackathons, we believe in learning from each other. Have a cool idea or an interesting challenge? Let’s solve it together.
• Hack, Build, and Innovate Twice a year, we hit pause on our regular work for company‑wide hackathons, giving you the chance to experiment, push boundaries, and build something awesome.
• Clear Career Growth, No Guesswork We don’t do vague career paths. Our well‑defined growth tracks show you exactly what’s needed to take your career to the next level, in a way that aligns with your skills and ambitions.
• You’ll work on exciting projects using cutting‑edge technologies like TypeScript, NestJS microservices, and micro‑frontends with React.

Benefits & Perks at Zensurance:

At Zensurance, we know that when our people thrive, so does our business. That’s why we offer a flexible, people‑first work environment designed to support your well‑being, growth, and success.

• Work Your Way 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.
• Your Health, Your Way 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.
• Investing in Your Growth Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships, Opportunities to learn from industry experts and grow your career.
• Staying Connected Weekly Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams, Virtual & in‑person team‑building events to strengthen our culture.

We’re building something special. Come be a part of it!

Who We Are: Business is hard work, but insurance doesn’t have to be! We empower businesses owners with simple, tech‑driven insurance solutions through our online platform. Our success is fueled by our team‑oriented culture and four core values: DELIVER – We set ambitious goals and achieve them. INCLUDE– We foster an open and safe space for all. INTEGRITY – We do what’s right. INVENT– We create straightforward, innovative solutions.

AI Tools and Your Interview: We know AI is a valuable tool, and you’re welcome to use it to prepare for your interview. However, please don’t use AI assistants during the live interview itself. We want to have an authentic conversation with you, and using AI during the interview could affect our evaluation of your suitability for the role. Just so you know, we use an AI scribe to help us take notes and review interviews, ensuring a fair and clear process.

Diversity & Inclusion: Zensurance celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you need support, let us know, we’re here to help.

Thank You! We review every application with care to find the best fit for our team. While we may take a little time to get back to you due to the high volume of applications we receive, know that a real human (not a bot!) is reviewing yours. We appreciate your patience and can’t wait to learn more about you! We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.