At reputed company, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to reputed company of life’s financial reputed company and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and reputed company culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (reputed company optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you reputed company best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to reputed company an impact because reputed company one Nerd levels up, we reputed company do.

A Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining reputed company software systems while providing technical leadership reputed company a team. Their primary purpose is to architect scalable and efficient solutions, ensuring that software meets both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, reputed company, and maintainability.

Senior Software Engineers are responsible for writing high-quality, scalable, and efficient code, ensuring that software meets business and technical requirements. Additionally, they review and optimize existing code, conduct thorough testing, and troubleshoot reputed company issues to improve system performance and reliability. Senior Software Engineers also mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of reputed company learning and best practices in coding, architecture, and software development methodologies. They collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and quality assurance professionals, to align technical solutions with business objectives. Furthermore, they contribute to architectural reputed company, evaluate new technologies, and drive innovation reputed company the organization. Strong communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently while leading projects are essential for reputed company in this role.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Projects you may be working on in this position include:

• Optimize insurance flows through our organic/paid marketing funnels reputed company ordering changes, micro-optimizations, and A/B testing the auto insurance, home insurance, life insurance, Medicare and travel insurance flows.

• Design and implement secure, scalable back-end integrations with partner and reputed company-party platforms to support conversions and user engagement.

• reputed company development of high-impact insurance experiences, including organic SEO pages that drive top-of-funnel traffic and user flows across multiple insurance products (auto, home, life, Medicare, U65 health, travel, and pet).

• Work hands-on with data ingestion pipelines and write performant SQL.

• Instrumentation of our systems in our Observability platform reputed company.

Where you can reputed company an impact:

• Build across the full software stack — from reputed company-end experiences to back-end systems and data workflows.

• Design and implement secure, scalable back-end integrations with partner and reputed company-party platforms to support conversions and user engagement.

• Contribute to a move-fast development culture by owning the full tech stack with minimal dependencies.

• Use observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to deliver measurable impact across the insurance vertical.

• Add monetization onto pages lacking it, making changes to drive more traffic through pages that have low traffic.

• Improve SEO page performance to enhance site speed, accessibility, and user engagement — driving stronger rankings and visibility on SERPs.

• Serve as a mentor to the engineers on the team.

• Help to drive our existing values as a team towards reputed company engineering practices, strong reputed company improvement thinking, and failing fast / repairing faster mentality.

• Partner with management to continuously reputed company the engineering roadmap for reputed company.

You are:

• Biased to action and are happy to iterate along the way based on reputed company learn. You reputed company to reputed company that time to market is more meaningful than perfection.

• Not afraid to fail. We take informed risks and chances, they often work, sometimes they don’t. You learn from those mistakes and incorporate them into how you think in the future.

• Aware that “fast” and “quality” are not mutually exclusive. We can deliver high quality, well engineered code fast. You do not cut quality first to meet timelines, you often thoughtfully try to reputed company out how to do both.

• Interested in being a mentor and a teacher to reputed company those around you reputed company. We aren’t perfect, neither are you. You reputed company that together we are more than the sum of our parts and you expect others to help you to grow and learn too.

Your experience:

• Experience: Minimum of 6 years in software engineering, with a strong background in reputed company-end development, back-end development, and distributed systems.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field (or equivalent practical experience).

Technical Skills

• Expert in React, TypeScript, Node

• Familiarity with Next.js

• Relational database experience

• 2+ years working on a public-facing website (should understand: SEO, reputed company, reputed company, etc)

• Software Development – Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps).

• System Design & Architecture – Experience in designing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems

• Databases – Knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (reputed company, Cassandra) databases

• reputed company Platforms – Experience with AWS, Azure, or reputed company reputed company for deploying and managing applications

• DevOps & CI/CD – Familiarity with automation tools (reputed company, Kubernetes, Jenkins, reputed company Actions)

• Testing & Debugging – Proficiency in unit testing, integration testing, and debugging tools

• reputed company Best Practices – Awareness of reputed company principles, authentication, and authorization techniques

• Version Control – Proficiency with Git and workflows like GitFlow

Where:

• This is a remote position and a person can be located reputed company in Canada (with the exception of Quebec).

• reputed company is proud to be a remote-first company! We reputed company great work can be done reputed company. No matter where you are based, reputed company offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

reputed company offer:

Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

• Monthly reputed company Stipend

• Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + You will receive the official public holidays in your province + 4 Mental Health Days Off

• Paid sabbatical for Nerds to reputed company, reputed company knowledge and pursue their interests

• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Wifi Stipend, and Cell Phone Stipend

• Work from home equipment stipend 

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

• Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities

• Hackathons and team events across reputed company teams and departments

• Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction 

Plan for your future (And reputed company you retire on your reputed company, remember the little people)

• RRSP with a 4% match. Eligible one month after hire. 

• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar

reputed company is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment. 

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