Software Engineer - Mid level Frontend

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 a Software Engineer specialising in Frontend (preferably VueJS) in our Engineering Team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining dynamic, high-performing web applications using Vue.js and related technologies. This role involves building scalable front-end solutions, ensuring seamless user experiences, and collaborating closely with designers, backend engineers, and product teams.

You will be responsible for feature development, user-experience improvements, performance optimisation, state management, code reviews, automated testing and API integration.  Regular collaboration with your team and adjacent teams using the platform will be key in ensuring improvements in user-experience, performance and new feature development are achieved.

To drive success in this role, you will have 3-5 years of front-end experience, demonstrating strong JavaScript proficiency and a deep understanding of Vue.js core principles (components, reactivity, props, etc), with an emphasis on Vue.js 3. Comfortable with RESTful APIs, Git, HTML5, and CSS3. Whilst the role is Frontend focused, Backend experience, particularly with PHP/Laravel would be advantageous

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.

• Develop high-quality, reusable, and well-tested Vue.js components and features for our core platform, contributing to platform growth, having automated testing.
• Own the front-end implementation of key product features, translating high level requirements and design specifications into performant and scalable code, directly impacting the user productivity.
• Optimize existing Vue.js applications for maximum speed and scalability, achieving a quicker page load time and lower memory usage.
• Collaborate effectively with back-end developers, designers, and product owners throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration and timely delivery of features.
• Champion best practices in front-end development, including code reviews, testing, and documentation,  and mentoring junior developers (where applicable).
• Maintain and improve current codebase, proactively identifying and addressing areas to improve through refactoring and/or optimisation. Improving code quality metrics.

• Ideally 3-5 years of experience in Frontend space, demonstrating strong JavaScript proficiency and a deep understanding of Vue.js core principles (components, reactivity, props, etc), with an emphasis on Vue.js 3, Vite and Pinia
• Experience with common Vue features, state management (Pinia), and tools like Babel and NPM/Yarn is essential
• Comfortable with RESTful APIs, Git, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with unit and integration testing
• Good eye for detail and strong user-experience focus
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills are crucial for success in this role.
• Whilst the role is Frontend focused, Backend experience, particularly with PHP/Laravel would be advantageous

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!

* 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.