Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 3, 2026.
About Cover Genius
Cover Genius is the global infrastructure for embedded protection. Active in over 60 countries and all 50 US States, we protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines, Tongcheng Travel, eBay, and Uber, with seamless, end-to-end experiences. Cover Genius has protected more than 73M customers globally across 240M policies with USD $3.2BN in gross written sales.
Coming off a stellar year with 40% YoY revenue growth and a recent $100M capital raise, putting our valuation at $1.9BN, we are accelerating into our next phase of growth. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap, developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure, while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market.
Our people are: Accountable, customer-obsessed, collaborative, driven
Our people are not: Passive, defensive, siloed, hesitant
About the role:
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?
At Cover Genius, we create magic by turning the archaic into the extraordinary. We take one of the world’s oldest and most complex industries and reinvent it with world-class technology. Cover Genius doesn’t just disrupt legacy insurance; we make the impossible feel effortless.Our operating principles guide our mission:
Make today matter: We deliver with urgency and excellence. We act decisively, move with intention, and hold a high bar.
Act with accountability: We own our commitments and take pride in delivering results that move us forward.
Grow together: We are a collective of curious minds. We learn from wins and setbacks, share knowledge generously, and elevate each other every day.
Inspire Each Other: We push each other to think bigger and pull together to go further.
Champion Our Customers: We lead with empathy and center the customer, turning complex disruptions into seamless moments of trust.
Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on a Wednesday and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.
Don't just take our word for it - hear about our culture straight from our people here: story time.
Ready to make an impact? If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be challenged, trusted, and empowered, we’d love to meet you.
The Legal & Privacy Stuff
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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*This position offers a base salary range of C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.