\nZensurance is a scale-up InsurTech company that is re-imagining the commercial insurance market. At Zensurance, we want to empower small businesses across Canada to thrive by offering an honest, simplified, and modern approach to insurance. Our main recipe is a combination of modern technology and insurance industry expertise powered by our talented team members. \n\n\nBeing a technology-forward company, we utilize various tools and platforms to create fun, engaging and meaningful work experiences for our employees, as a remote-first company.\n\n\nWe are boldly going where no insurance broker has gone before!\n\n\nZensurance is growing rapidly, and so is our Engineering team! We're excited to announce that we’re hiring 4 Junior Software Developers for our Core Red, Core Blue, Core Yellow, and Business Acquisition & Tooling (BAT) teams.\n\n\nAs a Junior Software Developer (Full Stack), you will collaborate with the Engineering Team to deliver robust software solutions using the MERN Stack. Reporting to the Team Lead, Engineering, you will be responsible for supporting the team in implementing and delivering software features in line with the Company’s best practices in software development.\n\n\nAs an individual contributor and junior professional, you’ll be expected to be a self-starter and fast learner who takes ownership of your personal learning and development, and calls for help when needed.\n\n\nThis is a remote-first role within the GTA. #LI-Remote\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n* Collaborate with project stakeholders and the development team to design and build scalable, user-friendly systems for our customers, and in-house tooling.\n* Adhere to established software architecture and development paradigms.\n* Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.\n* Suggest, design, implement, test and monitor features and functionalities.\n* Participate in strategy discussions and understand stated tradeoffs of potential software solutions.\n* Develop, test, and maintain codebase within the team’s domain.\n* Develop and maintain documentation for new and existing features and integrations.\n* Develop an understanding of company goals and initiatives and assist the team deliver on them.\n* Attend Engineering power-up meetings and leverage other learning opportunities to build software development skills.\n* Perform other duties as assigned.\n\n\n\nYour qualifications:\n* University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program (preferably in\n* Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.\n* 1-2 years of experience in building web applications.\n* Fullstack experience with NodeJS/AWS and the TypeScript ecosystem.\n* Front-end experience with React.  \n* Experience with testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha.\n* Knowledge of common design patterns, and the basics of refactoring.\n* Ability to debug simple issues.\n* A passion for clean, reusable, and structured code.\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n* Knowledge of the TypeScript ecosystem is a plus.\n* Prior insurance domain knowledge is an asset, but not required.\n* Experience with NestJS is a plus.\n\n\n\nGet to know about our Engineering teams that are hiring:\n* As a Core team member, you will be 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.\n* As a Business Acquisition & Tooling (BAT) team member, you will be responsible for the Business Acquisition part of our process. This includes developing and maintaining our customer-facing app, as well as upholding high standards for all visual components used by other teams in the company.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Engineering Team: \n\n\nOur fully remote engineering team fosters a learning culture that encourages professional development. Some of the highlights of the team environment include: \n\n\n• Approachable, a supportive leadership team with extensive technical experience and ability.\n• Training and professional development budgets.\n• Knowledge sharing through power-ups.\n• Learning events and book clubs that help the team develop their skills and create a safe, supportive environment.\n• Twice-annual hackathons that provide opportunities to explore interests and practice new technical skills.\n• Opportunities to share your knowledge and experience and mentor others.\n\n\nIn addition, we provide amazing opportunities for career advancement. We provide well-defined and documented career progression paths to our engineering team members that provide clear expectations and requirements for advancement in our fast-growing environment. \n\n\nAs we scale our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on challenging projects using a modern tech stack and cutting-edge systems, including microservices and micro-frontends, with industry-leading tools such as NodeJS, React, TypeScript, Kafka, and more. \n\n\nPerks we offer at Zensurance:\n\n\n• Opportunity to work for Canada’s fastest-growing #insurtech scale-up \n• Primarily remote work environment available to everyone\n• Laptop, extra monitor and main accessories are provided \n• Extra home office and supplies allowance to help with work-from-home set up\n• Comprehensive and flexible health and dental plans to suit all lifestyles, including mental health \n• Health/Personal Spending Accounts to subsidize your healthy habits and purchases\n• Parental Leave Top Up\n• Weekly Friday companywide huddles for casual catch-ups with other departments\n• Build next-level relationships with your peers through scheduled companywide virtual and in-person team-building events\n• Be a part of something special. We are confident you won’t find any other insurance company like us :)\n\n\nWho we are. What we're building.\n\n\nBusiness is hard work, insurance doesn’t have to be!\n\n\nAt Zensurance we believe that teamwork makes the dream work.\n\n\nWe are passionate about providing business owners with the best insurance solutions at great rates through an online and easy-to-use platform.\n\n\nOur secret sauce is all about our culture. Here at Zensurance our culture is built on four core values that we live and breathe daily. They are:\n\n\nINTEGRITY: We do what's right.\nINCLUDE: We are an open and safe space for all.\nINVENT: We take an innovative approach to creating straightforward solutions for our customers.\nDELIVER: We set ambitious goals and hold ourselves accountable for achieving them.\n\n\nZensurance celebrates diversity in its workforce structure and encourages applications from all backgrounds.\n\n\nZensurance is an inclusive employer that celebrates diversity in its workforce structure. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective provincial human rights codes throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the recruiter if you require accommodation; to ensure your accessibility needs are accommodated throughout this process. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.\n\n\nWe understand that looking for a new exciting opportunity can be time-consuming. We truly appreciate your time in going through the job posting and applying for a position with us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Recruiter, Typescript and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $37,500 — $67,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, ON

\nAbout the role\n\nWe are looking for an experienced Back-end engineer for curating the structure of server-side information. In this role, you will primarily write server components and APIs to be utilized by front side engineers and UX designers. The day to day consists of implementing reusable code libraries, good APIs, generating data storage solutions, optimizing servers for speed and stability, implementing security structures, and collaborating with the frontend engineers to develop a Clean Code / Clean Architecture experience through excellent Software Design and Software Architecture good practices.\n\nBack End Engineers should possess good knowledge about algorithms, data structures, design patterns and Software Engineering in general. A basic understanding of front-end techs such as React, HTML and CSS is needed for efficiency. Vast knowledge of backend coding in NodeJS platforms is required for candidacy. Well qualified applicants will possess strong communication, organizational and time-management skills.\n\nResponsibilities :\n\n\nConfidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.\n\nDevelop features and improvements to Andela products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.\n\nCollaborate with Engineering Managers, Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, DevOps professionals, Product Managers, Designers, to solve common goals and maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment\n\nConduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure your colleagues' contributions receive a swift response.\n\nSolve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.\n\nRecognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions\n\nTranslate requirements into Conceptual Designs and Technical Designs\n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\nExcellent communication skills\n\nExperience with NodeJs and Javascript. Typescript is a plus.\n\nExperience with database modeling (ERD/ERM) and migrations\n\nSignificant experience with API Creation & modeling\n\nExperience with Integration tests\n\nKnowledgeable about Software Design Principles, e.g.: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Decomposition, Generalization, Coupling and Cohesion, Separation of Concerns\n\nUnderstanding of scaling applications to handle high data traffic\n\nClean Code / Clean Architecture experience; Design patterns understanding and correct application, e.g.: Singleton, Factory, Adapter, Strategy etc\n\nA basic understanding of front-end tech such as React, HTML5, CSS3 is needed for efficiency\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n#LI-BW\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Swift, DevOps, CSS, HTML, Typescript, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

\nImagine yourself here!\n\n\nOpenGov is a mission driven fast-growth, Series D, venture backed startup (includes Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, and Emerson Collective). Our Board of Directors includes iconic Silicon Valley executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO) and Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world).  \n\n\nOpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for local governments and state agencies. We have surpassed 1,600+ governments (and growing fast!) using our products in our mission to power more effective and accountable government.\n\n\nOpenGov is a 2022 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes 2022 America's Best Startup Employer!\n\n\nAs a Sr React Engineer, you’ll build the best-in-class SaaS solution that enables efficiency, transparency, and accountability within government agencies. You’ll be a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better every day by powering our key community functions. We value self-starters with intrinsic motivation, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively to further OpenGov’s culture of accountability, respect, dedication, and fun. We value clean code, principles over dogma, customer collaboration, teamwork, and thought leadership.\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n• Provide leadership at the tactical level with input into strategy and team leadership, and solve significant and unique problems where analysis requires an evaluation of intangibles.\n• Architect, design and develop robust APIs and microservices using NodeJS, Typescript, and ReactJS to serve over 100k daily users across hundreds of customer communities.\n• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle including collaboration with Product, Design, and other customer success stakeholders to shape the system.\n• Deliver iterative improvements with performant code to realize the product vision and roadmap plans.\n• Using an API-first approach, develop REST & GraphQL microservices that communicate with the OpenGov event-driven platform for Data & Reporting services, as well as integrate with customer systems for inbound and outbound data integrations.\n• Participate in the CICD and DevOps automation initiatives to build, test, deploy & operate on industry-leading platforms & tools including AWS Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Spinnaker, NewRelic, etc.\n• You will act as a key contributor to continuously improve the way the team collaborates and delivers while elevating the quality and business value of the product, as well as the technical innovation and excellence standards of the team.\n\n\nRequirements and Preferred Experience:\n• 10+ years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self-organized Agile environment\n• 5+ years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks e.g ReactJS\n• 5+ years developing backend microservices with NodeJS, Typescript and REST/GraphQL APIs\n• Experience building a heavily utilized at-scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software\n• Experience with cloud-native software development and delivery with a clear understanding of the standard architecture patterns and design practices surrounding Cloud services and deployments.\n• Successfully built APIs, architected database models including SQL and NoSQL, and event-driven patterns\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes OpenGov unique\n\n\n» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!\n\n\n» Funding: Over $250 million, Series D company, from top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective.\n\n\n» Board of Directors: Includes iconic executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO), Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world), Katherine August-deWilde (Vice Chair of First Republic Bank), and Amy Pressman (co-founder, former president, and a current board member of Medallia).\n\n\n» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,600+ governments (and counting) using our products and seven acquisitions in the past six years! Click here to read more. \n\n\n» Culture: Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, Winner of 2022 Top Workplaces USA award, 50 Best Workplaces award. Check out our Careers Video!\n\n\n» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (six consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies. \n\n\n» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.\n\n\nCome join us and make a positive social impact!\n\n\n\n\nOpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Design, SaaS, GraphQL, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, Typescript, Engineer, Backend and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBuenos Aires