Senior Software Engineer, XCore (Python, Django)
Company: Cover Genius
Location: Sydney NSW (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-24
About this role
Job type: Full Time · Department: Technology · Work type: Hybrid
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job details
About 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, Hopper, Skyscanner, 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 who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits 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 Senior Software Engineer on our Technology Team, you will own the design, development and optimization of business critical applications within our Core Services problem spaces that power the XCover platform. To drive success in this role, you will have strong expertise in backend development ideally with Python (Django) and experience building scalable, distributed systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will design and implement high-quality, maintainable solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust features. Regular collaboration with Product Managers, Infrastructure teams and other engineering domains will be key in ensuring you continue to deliver exceptional performance, scalability and reliability to support our global bu...