Senior Software Engineer

Cover Genius

$135K — $175K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years software development experience with successful production system deployments.
  • Proficient with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini) integrated into workflows.
  • Working knowledge of LLMs beyond just code generation.
  • Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript; familiarity with NestJS or similar frameworks.
  • Experience in building complex applications where data accuracy is critical.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build features for CG Admin that streamline complex insurance setups.
  • Utilize AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and output.
  • Take ownership of complex platform areas, ensuring quality and speed.
  • Manage code reviews and set standards for AI-enhanced development.
  • Collaborate with product and teams using CG Admin to create effective tooling.
  • Mentor team members on AI-first development practices and workflows.
  • Ensure reliability and observability in critical platform areas.

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO to promote work-life balance.
  • Employee stock options to share in company success.
  • Collaborative work environment with passionate colleagues.
  • Engagement in social initiatives through CG Gives program.
Full Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Global Insurance Platform team, you'll build and evolve **CG Admin**, the internal platform that powers how Cover Genius configures and operates insurance products at scale for its global partners like Booking.com, Skyscanner, and Ryanair. This is where product setup, pricing, underwriting rules, and policy lifecycle come together, and where the correctness and reliability of what we ship directly affects live policies and real money. We're building AI-first. You'll use agentic tools like Claude Code and Gemini as core parts of your workflow, not as novelties, but as multipliers that let a small team ship like a big one. You'll shape how we integrate AI into development practices, from code generation to testing to documentation, and help define what "agentic software engineering" looks like at Cover Genius. You'll join an established team as a senior individual contributor. You'll take ownership of complex, high-impact areas of the platform, raise the technical bar (including how we apply AI), and mentor engineers, with high ownership and real impact from day one. **Key Responsibilities:**
  • Design and build features across CG Admin, from configuration workflows to the services behind them, that make complex insurance setup safe, fast, and repeatable.
  • Use AI tools (Claude Code, Gemini) as core workflow accelerators; develop prompt strategies and agentic workflows that multiply your output.
  • Own complex areas of the platform end-to-end, balancing speed of delivery with the durability a mission-critical internal system demands.
  • Drive technical quality through code reviews, design discussions, and by setting standards that raise the bar for AI-augmented development.
  • Partner with product and with the operations, configuration, and platform teams who use CG Admin daily, translating their needs into well-designed tooling.
  • Mentor engineers in AI-first development practices; help the team adopt tools and workflows that make everyone more effective.
  • Own reliability, correctness, and observability for the areas you lead; catch data-integrity and configuration errors before they reach live policies.
**Skills and Experience:**
  • 6+ years of experience in software development, with a track record of shipping production systems.
  • Fluent with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, or similar). You've integrated them into real workflows, not just experimented.
  • Working understanding of LLMs beyond code generation.
  • Deep experience with Node.js and TypeScript; hands-on experience with NestJS or similar frameworks. Front-end experience (React) is valuable given CG Admin is a full-stack web application.
  • Polyglot mindset, comfortable picking up new languages; experience or exposure to Python or PHP is a plus.
  • Experience building complex, domain-rich applications (internal platforms, admin/back-office tooling, or configuration systems) where correctness matters.
  • Strong understanding of API design, microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Solid grasp of relational databases, data modeling, and event-driven patterns.
  • Comfort with ambiguity; you've built systems where requirements were discovered along the way.
  • Strong communication skills; able to document decisions, write clear specs, and influence without authority.
**Proficiencies and Attributes:** **Ownership & Delivery:**
  • Takes ambiguous problems and drives them to shipped outcomes-not just code, but results.
  • Balances speed with quality; knows when to iterate fast and when to invest in durability.
  • Manages risk proactively-identifies failure modes and mitigates before they bite.
**Communication & Influence:**
  • Creates clarity from ambiguity; documents decisions so others can build on your work.
  • Influences through evidence and collaboration, not authority; brings people along.
  • Communicates technical concepts clearly to engineers, product, and business stakeholders.
**AI-First Mindset:**
  • Treats AI tools as essential infrastructure, not optional add-ons; continuously experiments with new capabilities.
  • Understands LLM strengths and limitations-knows when to prompt and when to fine-tune.
  • Thinks in terms of leverage-automates the repetitive, focuses human attention on judgment calls.
  • Helps others adopt AI workflows; shares what works and raises the floor for the whole team.
**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 PTO.** Taking time out is important for our teams to enjoy life and stay fresh. • **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! **This position offers a base salary range of C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.**

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