Technical Lead

Who we are at Embroker

Embroker is the radically simple destination for industry-tailored commercial insurance. Our mission is to make it radically easier for businesses to get the right coverage at the best price. With a technology-first, customer-centric approach, Embroker is changing how businesses protect themselves, their staff, and their customers. In 2015, Embroker has raised over $150M in funding from leading fintech investors.

POSITION WILL SIT REMOTELY IN CANADA

BASE SALARY: $170,000 CAD - $230,000 CAD

Position Overview 

We are looking for a highly skilled Back End Tech Lead to provide technical leadership and strategic guidance for our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and highly available back-end systems while driving performance and collaboration across the team. You will work closely with architects and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals, resolve technical challenges, and mentor engineers to foster growth. This is a hands-on role where you will oversee system architecture, client-facing demos, and the overall delivery of robust cloud-native solutions.

Job Duties

• Provide the team with technical leadership over their particular function (backend, front end, QA, or data), and establish the guidelines and principles for building processes
• Work closely with the architect to holistically examine the organization’s engineering operations and objectives 
• Identify and resolve technical issues and provide innovative ideas while driving  performance and collaboration.
• Own the delivery of highly-available systems with quality, resiliency, security, latency, and developer productivity a key focus of each service built or maintained.
• Provide mentorship and technical oversight of engineering talent
• Lead client meetings and demos, demonstrating project progress or gathering technical requirements.
• Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and relevance to the business goals
• Support other team members’ growth by organizing knowledge transfer sessions and internal lunch & learn events.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience web application development
• 2+ years experience as a technical lead of a development team
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or combination of education and experience 
• Experience in building cloud native solutions (preferably on AWS)
• Proficiency in GO
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns
• Strong foundation in event-driven architectures
• Proven ability to create and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and observable services
• Hands-on experience designing and creating Event schemas and services
• Skilled in designing/building RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and high-quality code in a highly collaborative Agile development environment
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work cross culturally on a global team
• Prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Ability to perform at a high-level in a remote work environment

Our Values

The Embroker Pack lives by three core values that have taken us from an idea to a growing, well-funded player in the Insurtech space.

Pack First

We succeed and fail as one team. We optimize for what is best for our entire organization. We always assume positive intent.

Be All-In

We are 100% committed. We move fast and are proud of what we build. We attack challenges with relentless positivity.

Create Magic

We strive to amaze and delight at every touchpoint. We make our work fun through teamwork, play, and positive energy.

AT EMBROKER, EMPLOYEES COME FIRST.  BENEFITS SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTED BELOW FOR US & CANADIAN EMPLOYEES. 

US Employees

• Medical - 5 plans to choose from including one with an employer funded HSA
• Dental - Employer pays 100% of employee premium
• Vision - Employer pays 100% of employee premium
• Life and AD&D - Employer provided as well as additional voluntary
• Short and Long Term Disability - Employer provided
• Flexible Spending Accounts - Medical and Childcare
• Accident
• Critical Illness
• Employee Assistance Program - Including dependents
• Pet Insurance
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Unlimited Flexible Time Off (Vacation)
• Sick Time
• 12-Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Work from Home Office Set-up Stipend
• Paid Subscription for Wellable Wellness
• Stock options

Canadian Employees

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision 
• Life and AD&D 
• Long Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program 

Additional portable insurance coverage is also available including:

• Life
• AD&D
• Critical Illness

Additional benefits offered:

• RRSP with Employer Match 
• Unlimited Flexible Time Off (Vacation)
• Sick Time
• Parental Leave with Salary Top-Up Program
• Work from Home Office Set-up Stipend
• Paid Subscription for Wellable Wellness
• Stock options