Senior Software Engineer Backend

About The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech protecting the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings (Priceline, Kayak, Booking.com), Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip, and SeatGeek. Our protection is also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair, and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide annually. Our team and products have earned numerous accolades, including being ranked by the Financial Times as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team, spanning over 20 countries and many language groups, is committed to diverse cultural programs, particularly “CG Gives,” which empowers us all to be social entrepreneurs 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 Backend on our Technology Team, you will own the design, development, and optimization of business-critical foundational services that power our partners-facing product suite. You will be responsible for the platform's core components, including authentication, authorization, notifications, and audit logging. To drive success in this role, you will possess strong expertise in backend development, specifically with Node.js, and extensive experience building scalable, secure, and distributed systems. As the Senior Software Engineer Backend, you will design and implement high-quality, maintainable solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust platform capabilities. Regular collaboration with Product Managers, Infrastructure teams, and other engineering domains will be key in ensuring our foundational services continue to deliver exceptional performance, scalability, reliability, and observability to support our global business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical strategy by designing and developing robust, scalable platform-level services and foundational features (e.g., authentication, authorization, notifications, audit logs).
• Own the end-to-end delivery of core platform components, ensuring they meet engineering requirements, performance standards, and critical security compliance.
• Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) to ensure high availability and proactive issue resolution for core services.
• 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, security teams, and other engineering leaders to translate platform vision and technical requirements into solutions that enable the entire engineering organization.
• Drive innovation by researching and prototyping with emerging technologies to enhance system performance and developer experience.

Skills And Experience

What you will bring:

• Significant experience in backend software engineering, with a proven track record at a Senior level.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Node.js for building scalable, high-performance services.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing core foundational services such as authentication, authorization, notifications, and/or audit logging systems.
• Strong proficiency with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization.
• Proven experience with observability practices and platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to instrument, monitor, and debug distributed systems.
• A passion for mentoring junior engineers and uplifting the team's technical excellence.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and other teams.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, A postgraduate degree and/or record of academic achievement is also desirable.

PROFICIENCIES AND ATTRIBUTES

What You Will Have

• 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.
• Strong understanding of software design principles patterns, APIs, and database optimization, especially in PostgreSQL.
• Deep understanding of NodeJS, Typescript/Javascript with experience with NextJS considered a plus.
• 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.

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.

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Key skills/competency

• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• Distributed Systems
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Microservices
• Observability
• AWS/GCP
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD