About the Company
Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.
Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
As a Full-stack Senior Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team, you will be responsible for building our Risk Evaluation Platform. You will be one of two senior engineers working on this new initiative. The new platform will be used across our business units to make decisions in real time about customers and other associated events.
To drive success in this role, you need a mix of technical expertise and business acumen. Regular collaboration with business stakeholders, product managers and cross domain team members will be essential to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
Design the architecture of our in house fraud evaluation platform.
Work with other senior members of the team to build the platform tailored to our internal use cases.
Work with product stakeholders to understand the use cases and translate the requirements into technical documentation.
Review architectural design documents from other team members.
Own the monitoring and alerting of new services associated with the platform.
Contribute to the technical delivery of complex, cross-stack initiatives related to Risk Evaluation Platform
Skills & Experience
What you will bring:
7+ years of professional software development experience with proven expertise in full-stack web application development.
Solid proficiency in TypeScript and React with deep understanding of modern frontend development patterns.
Advanced Backend development experience with NestJS or equivalent Node.js frameworks including API design, database integration and distributed systems.
Comprehensive understanding of full-stack web services architecture from client-side optimization to server-side performance, including RESTful APIs, database design, and system integration patterns.
Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP.
Experience designing, developing and deploying full-stack services in NodeJS.
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to accelerate the development process.
Some experience with Python and Django backend services is nice to have.
What you will have:
Customer-centric mindset. Keen eye for user experience and delivering exceptional products that meet business objectives.
Clear technical communication. Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Self-directed leadership. Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating effectively across engineering and product teams.
Initiative ownership. Proven ability to drive technical initiatives to successful completion.
Bias for action. Demonstrates urgency in decision-making with complete accountability for deliverables and outcomes.
Continuous learning. Commitment to staying current with emerging technologies and adapting to evolving business needs.
Balancing speed with quality by leveraging AI tools while staying in control of the system.
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.
- Global company, with the opportunity to work from any of our offices for 4 weeks a year
- 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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