Staff Software Developer - Integration(Remote First)
Zensurance4 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect Salesforce integration and data strategies across connected production distributed systems.
- Define data ownership, entity shapes, and sources of truth using relational data modeling and ERDs.
- Design high-scale integrations with retries, idempotency, reconciliation, dead-lettering, backfills, and observability.
- Replace brittle no-code integrations such as Zapier with robust code-based solutions.
- Develop sophisticated Salesforce integrations using code rather than administrative configuration.
- Establish CI/CD and configuration-as-code practices for Salesforce and integration management.
- Partner with engineering, IT, Product, and business stakeholders on system boundaries, standards, and change management.
- Serve as a technical authority on modern integration technologies and enterprise software engineering practices.
Requirements
- Hands-on Salesforce platform experience in a complex custom-object environment.
- Production TypeScript experience.
- Relational database experience with PostgreSQL or an equivalent system.
- Experience building integrations between Salesforce and external systems.
- Practical distributed-systems experience with idempotency, retries, dead-lettering, backfills, reconciliation, and eventual consistency.
- Experience with REST, SOAP, and webhooks.
- Strong relational data modeling and ERD design skills.
- Experience building integration observability using metrics, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks.
- Experience managing Salesforce metadata in source control with CI/CD, scratch orgs, sandboxes, and deployment automation.
- Ability to operate credibly at staff or lead level within a software engineering organization.
- Preferred experience includes Salesforce as an operational or domain platform, Zendesk, SAP, Stripe, regulated or workflow-heavy industries, NestJS, event-driven architecture, message queues, and replacing Zapier workflows.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement within Canada.
- Home office allowance and an office-in-a-box technology setup.
- Half days before public holidays.
- Flexible health and dental plans, mental health support, and health and personal spending accounts.
- Parental leave top-up.
- Education assistance for courses, conferences, books, and memberships.
- Professional development, mentorship, tech talks, book clubs, hackathons, and career growth tracks.
- Weekly Friday huddles and virtual and in-person team-building events.
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About Zensurance
Zensurance is a Toronto-based online insurance brokerage that distributes commercial property and casualty coverage to Canadian small businesses, startups, and independent professionals. Founded in 2016 and now owned by Travelers Insurance, it offers quote comparison and policy management through its platform, supported by a network of 50+ carrier partners. The company earns brokerage commissions for placing coverage across general liability, professional liability, and other business lines.