Senior Software Engineer - Remote (Node/TS, Microservices)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first setup for added flexiblit

Home office allowance

Top-tier tech equipment

Half days before public holidays

Flexible health and dental plans

Parental leave top-up

Education assistance reimbursement

Weekly Friday huddles

Job summary

Zensurance is seeking two Senior Software Developers to join our Core and Developer Experience teams. You will help drive the engine powering our pricing, ratings, and insurance documents using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and React.

As a senior, you will coach and mentor teammates, influence architecture, and contribute to engineering leadership in a remote-first Canadian setup. You’ll work with modern tools, ship high-quality software, and continuously improve craft across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building rich, complex web applications.
• Experience architecting and augmenting large software systems.
• Extensive fullstack experience with Node.js, AWS, React.js and the TypeScript ecosystem.
• Experience with microservices and microfrontends.
• Experience with back-end development using NestJS.
• Experience working with TypeORM.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of web security best practices and data protection.
• Knowledge of containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• A passion for clean, reusable, and well-structured code.
• Ability to communicate efficiently.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and work with others collaboratively.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the development of custom features and drive their technical implementation.
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for the team’s domain and drive its technical direction.
• Suggest, design, implement, test and monitor features and functionalities.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration in accordance with Agile methodology.
• Evangelize proper software architecture and development paradigms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design scalable, user-friendly systems.
• Discuss strategy and outline tradeoffs of potential software solutions.
• Develop, test, and maintain codebase within the team’s domain.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing of new technologies and solutions.
• Offer guidance and mentorship to junior and intermediate team members.
• Develop and maintain documentation for features and integrations.
• Develop an understanding of company goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Node.js

AWS

React.js

TypeScript

NestJS

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Web security

Clean code

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

MongoDB

Redis

gRPC

Job description

Zensurance is seeking two Senior Software Developers to join our Core and Developer Experience teams. You will help drive the engine powering our pricing, ratings, and insurance documents using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and React.

As a senior, you will coach and mentor teammates, influence architecture, and contribute to engineering leadership in a remote-first Canadian setup. You’ll work with modern tools, ship high-quality software, and continuously improve craft across teams.