Senior Software Engineer Python (Django)- Vancouver at Cover Genius

The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Technology Team, you will own the design, development and optimization of business critical applications within our Core Services problem spaces that powers the XCover platform. To drive success in this role, you will have strong expertise in backend development ideally with Python (Django) and experience building scalable, distributed systems. As the Senior Software Engineer you will design and implement high-quality, maintainable solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust features. Regular collaboration with Product Managers, Infrastructure teams and other engineering domains will be key in ensuring that the continue to deliver exceptional performance, scalability and reliability to support our global business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical strategy by designing and developing robust, scalable software solutions for the Core Services business domain.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of features and components on the XCover platform, ensuring they meet business requirements, performance standards and security compliance.
• Champion technical excellence by implementing and advocating for engineering best practices, quality standards and architectural principles within the team.
• Actively contribute to a culture of innovation, continuous learning and collaborative problem-solving by mentoring other engineers and sharing knowledge.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and other engineers to translate product vision into technical solutions and deliver high-impact features.
• Drive innovation by researching and prototyping with emerging technologies to enhance application performance and developer productivity.
• Improve code quality and system reliability by implementing monitoring, improving test coverage and actively managing technical debt within your team's services.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining large-scale web applications in production environments ideally using Django and Python.
• Strong understanding of software design principles patterns, APIs and database optimization techniques with practical experience implementing high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience with modern software development practices including CI/CD pipelines, test automation, code quality tools. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), managing workloads in Kubernetes.
• Experience with messaging systems, caching strategies, and designing resilient microservices that can handle high transaction volumes and scale effectively.
• Knowledge of insurance technology (insurtech) or fintech domains is highly advantageous, particularly experience with platforms that enable embedded financial services or B2B integration solutions.
  
  

What You Will Have

• Ownership mindset: That fosters accountability throughout the organization and encourages proactive problem-solving, learning from failures while celebrating successes as collective achievements.
• Exceptional communication skills: Demonstrated through the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate productive cross-functional collaboration.
• Pragmatic problem-solving: Strong analytical skills and a practical approach to solving complex issues.
• Curiosity & continuous learning: Passion for learning and growth.
• Influence & impact: Positively influence the technical direction of your team, driving the adoption of best practices and high standards.
  
  

Why Cover Genius?

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment - our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
  
  

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

• Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
  
  

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for three years from the date of your application. For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full Privacy Policy.

• This position offers a cash compensation range of C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.