Zensurance
Zensurance2mo ago
CAD 150000–170000/yr

Tech Lead (Remote First)

CanadaToronto · TorontoRemoteFull-timelead
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About Us: Zensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses. As a leading InsurTech, we make getting the right coverage simple, fast,

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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:


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 a Tech Lead to support our Renewals team.
 
The Renewals team owns the end to end policy renewal process, including renewal pricing, rules and validation. We build scalable services and tooling that replace manual processes to ensure renewals are accurate, explainable and compliant while enabling the business to evolve the renewals rules safely and efficiently.
 
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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Listing Details

    Posted
    January 27, 2026
    First seen
    March 26, 2026
    Last seen
    April 22, 2026

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    Zensurance

    Zensurance is a Canadian online insurance brokerage that provides customized business insurance solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, utilizing technology to simplify the purchasing process.

    Employees
    350
    Founded
    2016
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    ZensuranceTech Lead (Remote First)CAD 150000–170000