JOB POSTING INFORMATION
Position Type:	Professional Experience Year Co-op (PEY Co-op: 12-16 months)
Job Title:	Software Engineer
Job Location:	Toronto
Job Location Type:	Flexible
If working on site, can you provide a copy of your COVID-19 safety protocols?:	Yes
Number of Positions:	2
Salary:	$85000.00 annually for 40.0 hours per week
Start Date:	05/01/2024
End Date:	09/01/2025
Job Function:	Engineering
Job Description:	Co-op Software Engineer at Briza About Briza Briza is the leading developer platform for commercial insurance. We make it easy for developers to embed insurance experiences into their platforms. By writing once to the Briza API, developers can access the many products and carriers required to create great customer experiences for small commercial insurance. Briza enables developers to quote and bind policies over API. Based in Toronto Canada, with a team that spans the US, Brazil and Europe, Briza places a heavy emphasis on working with and developing the best talent in our industry. Your Opportunity Product engineering teams at Briza strive to make interacting with commercial insurance products not only better but delightful. There is a large and growing constituent of developers that need API access to insurance carriers but want a single integration, not 100's; this is the value we’re creating at Briza. The way we do this is by making access to the insurance ecosystem simple for developers, and in doing so help developers bring unique value to consumers and businesses. Briza is a Series A funded venture, with our HQ in Toronto, but with distributed team members across the globe. You can work from our modern office in Toronto, fully remote, or a combination of both.  Who you are:  You have strong foundations and an interest in building software applications, infrastructure/rails, API products or developer platforms You have some experience or transferable skills to program in Node.js and TypeScript You are hungry to learn: you’re comfortable with taking constructive feedback (and able to give it!), actively seeking it out to help drive your own growth   You understand the value of automated tests (unit, integration) as a means to ship quickly with confidence What you’ll be doing:  Design, build, maintain and evolve an API product and developer platform with fellow engineers, designers and product managers Get close to customers in order to understand their use cases Debug issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Improve our engineering standards, processes, monitoring and tooling Building a Diverse, Inclusive, Distributed Team At Briza, we believe diversity breeds excellence. We have a global workforce with team members on, or recruited from, 6 continents. At Briza, people live wherever they work best. We have an office in downtown Toronto (steps from Union Station) for those that do want to work onsite.  We also believe in four core values: Ownership. We make durable decisions that consider the interests of Brizans, customers and shareholders Ambition. We're rewriting an industry, so that buying business insurance is easy. Teamwork. It takes a village.  We lean on each other's strengths to grow and succeed. Honesty. Say what you mean and mean what you say.  We're comfortable receiving and delivering feedback.    We encourage applications from all qualified candidates around the world, including indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Diversity breeds excellence.
Job Requirements:	You have strong foundations and an interest in building software applications, infrastructure/rails, API products or developer platforms You have some experience or transferable skills to program in Node.js and TypeScript You are hungry to learn: you’re comfortable with taking constructive feedback (and able to give it!), actively seeking it out to help drive your own growth   You understand the value of automated tests (unit, integration) as a means to ship quickly with confidence What you’ll be doing:  Design, build, maintain and evolve an API product and developer platform with fellow engineers, designers and product managers Get close to customers in order to understand their use cases Debug issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Improve our engineering standards, processes, monitoring and tooling
Preferred Disciplines:	Computer Engineering Computer Science Engineering Science (Electrical and Computer) Engineering Science (Machine Intelligence) Engineering Science (Math, Stats & Finance) Engineering Science (Physics) Data Science
All Co-op programs:	No
Targeted Co-op Programs:	Targeted Programs Professional Experience Year Co-op (12 - 16 months)

APPLICATION INFORMATION
Application Deadline:	Oct 9, 2023 11:59 PM
Application Receipt Procedure:	Online via system
If by eMail, send to:	astok@briza.com
If by Website, go to:	https://briza.bamboohr.com/careers/23
Additional Application Information:	Note to PEY Co-op applicants: In addition to your application by email/website, please ensure that you select the “I intend to apply for this position” tab on the portal.  This will give us a record of your submitted application in the event that you will be invited for interviews.
U of T Job Coordinator:	Yasmine Abdelhady

ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Organization:	Briza
Division:	Engineering
Website:	www.briza.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Length of Workterm:	FLEXIBLE PEY Co-op: 12-16 months (range)