Engineering Manager

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, Uber, Hopper, 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 which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit 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

About the Role:

As an Engineering Manager in the Travel XCover Squad, you will own the technical vision and execution for our Travel integrations with new and existing partners through embedded, XCover Elements, or Standalone service. Your primary objective will be to lead a dedicated team supporting the Travel domain’s goal to be the indispensable global partner for travel businesses by delivering intelligent and adaptive coverage solutions.

To drive success in this role, you will have proven experience in people management, strong technical leadership in a modern microservices environment ideally with exposure to Node.js, Next.js, Nest.js, Typescript and a background in architecting highly reliable systems. As the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for mentoring and growing a team of talented engineers, guiding our technical strategy and executing our ambitious product roadmap. A key part of the role is to foster a culture of innovation, ownership and operational excellence.

Regular collaboration with internal product, engineering and partner-facing teams will be key in ensuring we achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to achieve the Travel product objectives plus key results for 2026 & beyond.

• Translate product vision and OKRs into actionable engineering initiatives and technical roadmaps.

• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions that deliver exceptional customer and partner experiences.

• Manage engineering resources effectively to meet project timelines and deliver high-quality solutions.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor/Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 5 years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years in leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams.

• Experience leading agile scrum teams of 5-7 engineers with diverse experience levels

• Capability to lead, develop, grow and mentor engineers 

• Extensive professional experience with Node.js and Typescript, including hands-on experience with modern frameworks such as NestJS.

• Proficiency in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React).

• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and managing microservices architectures on AWS.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and effective data modelling.

• Proven ability to design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.

• Proficiency with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for monitoring, logging, and alerting.

What you will have:

• You treat engineering as a craft and a calling. You are passionate about building high-quality, elegant and robust solutions and inspire others to do the same.

• You think beyond the immediate task, connecting your team's work to the broader company vision and ensuring solutions are not just effective but also sustainable and scalable for the future.

• You love navigating through complex technical challenges, making informed decisions and taking ownership of outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

• You build trust through open and honest communication, fostering a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and ideas can thrive.

• You are passionate about delivering exceptional customer and partner experiences and are motivated to inspire the team to achieve excellence.

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!

* 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 cash compensation range of C$150,000 to C$190,000 annually.