Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Full Time • Department: Engineering - 102 • Work type: Hybrid

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes, ShipRush, Zip, SeatGeek, 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 the Financial Times ranking Cover Genius as the #1 fastest‑growing company in APAC in 2020.

About the Role

As a senior software engineer on the Personalisation team, you will own the design, development, and operation of our pricing optimisation and experimentation platform (BrightWrite). BrightWrite powers dynamic pricing, A/B experimentation, plan recommendation for XCover and RentalCover, serving millions of pricing requests per day at low latency, both as an embedded Python package and as a standalone API service.

You will lead the end‑to‑end delivery of platform features, from the experimentation engine and the pricing‑expression language, through to event‑tracking pipelines and the analytics that data scientists and pricing analysts rely on. Because BrightWrite sits directly in the insurance quote path, your work has an immediate, measurable impact on conversion and margin across every partner.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core BrightWrite pricing services, pricing calculation, experiment platform, and ML infra integration, keeping them fast, correct, and safe at scale.
• Evolve the A/B testing framework so internal stakeholders can run reliable, revenue‑safe pricing experiments with confidence.
• Build the personalisation capabilities that tailor what each customer sees, build the data to serve the right product at the right price for every partner and customer segment.
• Design robust monitoring, alerting, and graceful‑degradation behaviour to protect partner sales and proactively identify, debug, and resolve production issues.
• Work closely with data science, the XCore and RentalCover teams to ship integrations, enforce pricing guardrails, and turn experiment data (pubsub events, BigQuery) into decisions.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, coupled with 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building highly scalable, data‑intensive backend systems in Python.
• Proven experience designing and operating low‑latency, high‑throughput services in the critical path of revenue—including API design, caching/CDN‑backed configuration delivery, and performance optimisation.
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles with a demonstrated ability to design, build, and maintain clean, testable Python services and internal libraries consumed by other teams.
• Experience with experimentation or A/B testing systems.
• Hands‑on experience with production operations: Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability and monitoring tooling, and incident response for business‑critical services.
• Comfort working with data pipelines and warehouses (e.g. Pub/Sub event streams, BigQuery) to instrument features and validate outcomes.
• Nice to have: experience building parsers, interpreters, or domain‑specific languages in Python and familiarity with applying LLM‑assisted tooling to internal workflows.

What you will have

• Ownership mindset with the ability to lead ambiguous, cross‑functional initiatives to measurable outcomes.
• Self‑motivated and continuously study the new practices and tooling in data engineering.
• Simple, robust engineering over hype: you critically evaluate new tools and techniques and choose what works.
• A natural mentor and collaborator who can clearly articulate complex technical concepts to engineers, data scientists, and non‑technical stakeholders alike.
• Embodies CG values—bold experimentation, purposeful innovation and authentic collaboration across diverse, global teams.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment: hybrid; work from home on Wednesdays and Thursdays, office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.
• Employee Stock Options to share in the company’s success.
• Opportunities to give back through CG Gives programs.
• Social initiatives and community involvement.

Compensation

* This position offers a base salary compensation range of C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.

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