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) Top Insurance Employers (2022). 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 Tech Leads to support our Core and Payments teams. Our Core team is responsible for the engine driving the company’s key goals such as adding more relevant insurance products with great prices on our website and delivering relevant insurance documents to our customers with ease.

The Payments

Team is responsible for understanding, evaluating, and improving our checkout experience which includes customer data confirmation, e‑sign, financing, payment collection and invoicing integrations backed by third‑party solutions. 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.

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. 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. The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $170,000, not including the annual discretionary bonus and any additional performance‑based incentives. the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program,



employees may also be eligible for performance‑based case incentive awards.

Join Our Engineering

Team – Where Growth Meets Innovation

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, professional 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.

Adaptable 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, Opportunities to learn from industry experts and grow your career.

Weekly

Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams, 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 businesses 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. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. #

📌 Remote Tech Lead (Remote First) (Conception Bay South)
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📍 Conception Bay South