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

The Role

As a Software Engineer III on our Distribution Team, you will own the stability, maintenance, and modernization of our business-critical, partner-facing applications. Your primary objective is to ensure our existing distribution channels are robust and reliable, which in turn enables the team to focus its efforts on delivering new, strategic projects and quarterly OKRs.

To drive success in this role, you will have a deep expertise in modern JavaScript and multiple frontend frameworks, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and autonomy. As the Software Engineer III, you will be the technical lead for our XCover Elements product (Preact, Astro) and other essential web tools (Vue.js, React.js). Regular collaboration with Backend Engineering, Product, and Design teams will be key in ensuring our partner integration experience remains best-in-class.

This role will be based in our Sydney office and will be a hybrid working role. What does hybrid mean here at CG? Monday, Tuesday and Friday collaboration in office, while you can enjoy plenty of flexibility with the added benefit of one wellness day a month available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end stability and technical health of our core frontend products, built with technologies like Preact, Astro, and Web Components.

• Lead the technical diagnosis and resolution of complex issues across our diverse frontend landscape, from partner-facing products to internal tools built with Vue.js and React.js.

• Design and implement secure, robust client-side API integrations, employing best practices for data handling (JSON), security, and caching strategies.

• Drive the modernization of our frontend applications by strategically managing technical debt, leading library upgrades, and refactoring critical code for improved testability and performance.

• Collaborate across teams to support and maintain our internal toolset, ensuring seamless integration and functionality for stakeholders.

• Mentor other engineers through thoughtful code reviews and knowledge sharing, actively elevating the team's frontend capabilities and best practices.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience (e.g. 3-5+ years) in a software engineering role with a strong focus on building and maintaining customer-facing frontend applications.

• Deep proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), Web Components, and demonstrable expertise in multiple frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Preact, Astro).

• Strong experience with client-side API integration (REST, JSON), version control with Git, and implementing effective caching strategies.

• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling, including CSS modules, build tools (Vite, Webpack), and testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright).

• Experience with test automation, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and containerization with Docker is highly desirable.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, A postgraduate degree and/or record of academic achievement is also desirable

What you will have:

• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: An ability to deconstruct large, ambiguous technical challenges into actionable, incremental plans, balancing ideal solutions with practical business needs.

• Extreme Ownership: A strong sense of autonomy and responsibility, taking full ownership of your domain from initial code to production stability while actively aligning with team objectives.

• Collaborative Mindset: A proactive, team-first mentality with a preference for building with a team to achieve shared outcomes, rather than working in isolation.

• Receptive & Respectful Feedback: Actively seeks out, welcomes, and acts on constructive feedback as a tool for growth; contributes to our open culture by providing thoughtful and respectful feedback to peers and leadership.

• Effective Communication: The ability to clearly and concisely articulate complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Curiosity & AI Fluency: A curious mind for new tech and AI. You stay current with the latest industry trends and are keen to explore different tools and leverage AI to enhance your work and streamline development processes. At Cover Genius, all team members are encouraged to utilize emerging technologies to improve their day-to-day work, and we expect you to be just as keen!

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. We also have the added bonus of a Wellness day a month.

• 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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