Software Engineer - Security Applications

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

As part of the Security Engineering Backend team, you will work on APIs that serve Coalition Control, our user-facing product enabling business owners to detect and mitigate cyber risk.  You will be working across multiple software development projects that can range from APIs serving the frontend and internal tools, to scraping and ETL workflows.

Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Go, running in AWS. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic judgments about how to scale and decouple systems as we continue to grow.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a remote team
• Design, develop and test backend implementations of new and existing product features, including features powered by AI
• Improve the reliability and scalability of our backend APIs
• Collaborate with the product team and other engineering teams as we define behavior for new features targeting security professionals.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experienced writing code in modern programming languages, preferably in Python.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey engineering-related topics to team members.
• Effective problem-solving skills to analyze and debug code.
• Experience with SQL databases and data modeling
• Curiosity and desire to learn about how things work at the deepest levels

Bonus Points

• Cloud Services
• Deployment automation and scalable infrastructure
• Experience writing monitors and alerts
• Knowledge of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities

Perks

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition? 

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion. 

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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