Senior Software Engineer

Cover Genius; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Employee Stock Options

CG Gives program

Job summary

Cover Genius is an insurtech company building CG Admin, an internal platform that configures and runs insurance products at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own complex areas of the Global Insurance Platform, shaping AI‑first development practices, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar.

You will work with AI tools like Claude Code and Gemini, integrate them into workflows, and collaborate with product, operations, and platform teams to deliver reliable, high‑impact

Job description

About Cover Genius

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings (Priceline, Kayak, Booking.com), Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, an award‑winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Global Insurance Platform team, you will build and evolve CG Admin, the internal platform that powers how Cover Genius configures and operates insurance products at scale for partners like Booking.com, Skyscanner and Ryanair. This involves product setup, pricing, underwriting rules and policy lifecycle, where the correctness and reliability of our work directly affect live policies and real money.

We are building an AI‑first culture. You will use agentic tools such as Claude Code and Gemini as core parts of your workflow—not as novelties but as multipliers that enable a small team to ship like a large one. You will shape how AI is integrated into development practices, from code generation to testing and documentation, and help define what "agentic software engineering" means at Cover Genius.

You will join an established team as a senior individual contributor. You will own complex, high‑impact areas of the platform, raise the technical bar (including how we apply AI), and mentor engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build features across CG Admin, from configuration workflows to the services behind them, that make complex insurance setup safe, fast, and repeatable.
• Use AI tools (Claude Code, Gemini) as core workflow accelerators; develop prompt strategies and agentic workflows that multiply your output.
• Own complex areas of the platform end‑to‑end, balancing speed of delivery with the durability a mission‑critical internal system demands.
• Drive technical quality through code reviews, design discussions, and by setting standards that raise the bar for AI‑augmented development.
• Partner with product and with the operations, configuration, and platform teams who use CG Admin daily, translating their needs into well‑designed tooling.
• Mentor engineers in AI‑first development practices; help the team adopt tools and workflows that make everyone more effective.
• Own reliability, correctness, and observability for the areas you lead; catch data‑integrity and configuration errors before they reach live policies.

Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of software development experience, with a track record of shipping production systems.
• Fluent with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, or similar). You have integrated them into real workflows, not just experimented.
• Working understanding of LLMs beyond code generation.
• Deep experience with Node.js and TypeScript; hands‑on experience with NestJS or similar frameworks. Front‑end experience (React) is valuable given CG Admin is a full‑stack web application.
• Polyglot mindset, comfortable picking up new languages; experience or exposure to Python or PHP is a plus.
• Experience building complex, domain‑rich applications (internal platforms, admin/back‑office tooling, or configuration systems) where correctness matters.
• Strong understanding of API design, microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Solid grasp of relational databases, data modeling, and event‑driven patterns.
• Comfort with ambiguity; you have built systems where requirements were discovered along the way.
• Strong communication skills; able to document decisions, write clear specs, and influence without authority.

Proficiencies and Attributes

Ownership & Delivery

• Takes ambiguous problems and drives them to shipped outcomes—not just code, but results.
• Balances speed with quality; knows when to iterate fast and when to invest in durability.
• Manages risk proactively—identifies failure modes and mitigates before they bite.

Communication & Influence

• Creates clarity from ambiguity; documents decisions so others can build on your work.
• Influences through evidence and collaboration, not authority; brings people along.
• Communicates technical concepts clearly to engineers, product, and business stakeholders.

AI‑First Mindset

• Treats AI tools as essential infrastructure, not optional add‑ons; continuously experiments with new capabilities.
• Understands LLM strengths and limitations—knows when to prompt and when to fine‑tune.
• Thinks in terms of leverage—automates the repetitive, focuses human attention on judgment calls.
• Helps others adopt AI workflows; shares what works and raises the floor for the whole team.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO.
• Employee Stock Options—to share in our success.
• Work with like‑minded people who are passionate about both the work and giving back. Our CG Gives program enables us to become philanthropists through peer recognition and rewards.
• Social initiatives—pictures speak a thousand words.

Diversity & Inclusion

• Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don’t tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

Privacy & Data Handling

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Compensation

Base salary range: C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.