About Us

Breathe Life’s mission is to power the insurance world with innovative technology that delivers seamless experiences to consumers and industry experts alike.

Recognized as a valued partner by some of the leading insurance institutions, Breathe Life powers partners to execute their digital transformation through a comprehensive suite of platforms:

• A direct online distribution of Insurance, powered with digital marketing insights and tools
• An intermediated platform to power insurance carriers into digital distribution through their brokerage forces
• An AI-driven insurance insights platform to uncover new opportunities for insurance products.

With its business-driven approach, deep industry connection and state-of-the-art technology, Breathe Life helps insurance institutions tackle any challenge in this era of digital disruption.

Breathe Life has secured significant financial and strategic backing from Diagram, a venture launchpad focused on insurance, financial and health technology. Diagram is backed by Power Financial Corporation, Great-West Lifeco, and IGM Financial through Portag3, along with 50+ leading angel investors. Our backing from Diagram gives us a significant competitive advantage that will help us win our market.

Breathe Life has also secured the backing of Real Ventures, a firm that has been a big actor in building the startup community and will help us execute on this big opportunity.

We are now looking for a Software Engineer - DevOps to join our growing team in Montreal!

Come along as we change this high impact industry that inherently touches many, many lives.

What you’d be doing:

• Design and implement infrastructure that scales;
• Provide support and mentorship to our engineering team on your areas of expertise;
• Analyze performance and reliability - data should move fast and accurately;
• Participate in projects from initial idea to launch;
• Design and implement features in small teams;
• Implement best practices to maintain high availability and business continuity;
• Build monitoring and log management tools that help improve site reliability;
• Stay up to date on latest technology and help us stay aligned with emerging best practices where practical.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering OR Comparable experience;
• Experience working with Kubernetes;
• Experience managing Cloud Ops (AWS / Google Cloud Platform / Azure);
• Experience with Terraform or similar technologies;
• Interest in building dev tools and improving developer productivity;
• Excellent communications skills (English - French);
• Humility;
• Hard worker;
• Ambition.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to have a significant impact on a product that will change how people think about and purchase Life Insurance;
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative and exciting company that is completely changing an outdated industry;
• The opportunity to work with a team of very experienced, hard-working, ambitious and caring individuals;
• The opportunity to develop reusable skills with a team that has been successful in the past;
• Competitive salary, stock options, 3 weeks of vacation + 1 week holidays office closure;
• Company paid top tier benefits plan and a telemedicine service;
• Weekly team lunches and quarterly outings;
• Work from a beautiful location in Old Montréal, a one minute walk from Square Victoria metro station.