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.

Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 (2023, 2024, 2025) ✅ Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 (2024, 2025) ✅ At Zensurance, we value ownership, collaboration, and innovation. 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 three Tech Leads to support our Engineering teams across Business Acquisition & Tooling (BAT) , Accounts Tooling & Automation (ATAT) , and Renewals & Pricing (RAP) .

This includes developing and maintaining our customer-facing app, as well as ensuring high standards for all visual components used across the company. The ATAT team is responsible for building and enhancing internal tooling for the Digital Platform, with a particular focus on supporting the Sales team in managing accounts. 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. 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. 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.

Coach and mentor the development team and work to expand their technical knowledge and skills. 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.

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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. ~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.

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.

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. We invest in your learning with training budgets, career development programs, and mentorship opportunities. Want to explore a new tech stack or level up your skills?

We can help get you there. From Power-Ups and book clubs to tech talks and hackathons, we believe in learning from each other. You’ll work on exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies like TypeScript, NestJS microservices, and micro-frontends with React.

That’s why we offer a flexible, people-first work environment designed to support your well-being, growth, and success. 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 ❤️ 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 Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships Virtual & in-person team-building events to strengthen our culture We’re building something special. Business is hard work, but insurance doesn’t have to be!

We empower business owners with simple, tech-driven insurance solutions through our online platform.

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. If you need support, let us know, we’re here to help.

📌 Tech Lead (Remote First) (Calgary)
🏢 Zensurance
📍 Calgary