Senior Platform API Engineer

Design platform APIs with Node.js and TypeScript at Instant Risk Coverage, working hybrid three days weekly in downtown Toronto. Build integration surfaces for insurance partners and customers.

As a Senior Core Platform Engineer, you will shape IRC’s technical foundations and platform architecture. Your work spans REST, GraphQL, webhooks, event-driven interfaces, and relational databases. You will help evolve an intelligent insurance operating system used by more than 500 venue groups.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build RESTful APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, and event-driven interfaces
• Own service boundaries, data modelling, API contracts, and foundational patterns
• Establish backend standards for testing, errors, APIs, and service design
• Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineer mentoring
• Communicate pragmatic engineering trade-offs across platform decisions

Requirements:

• Six to ten years of backend software engineering experience
• Deep production expertise with Node.js and TypeScript
• Strong command of REST, GraphQL, webhooks, and event-driven architecture
• Solid relational database knowledge, preferably PostgreSQL
• Ability to own architecture and set technical direction

Bring platform engineering judgment, API expertise, and backend leadership to Instant Risk Coverage’s growing insurance technology foundation.