🧨 Backend Engineer II, Remote Job, February 2023

About Us

Founded in 2017, Coalition combines cybersecurity and insurance to help organizations prevent digital risk before it strikes. Coalition’s Active Insurance policies combine traditional coverage with a digital risk assessment and monitoring technology to help small and medium-sized businesses protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

The team at Coalition is made up of cybersecurity and technology experts, as well insurance industry veterans. Our secret sauce is bringing this expertise together to create a world-class organization with a massive technological advantage. Coalition is also backed by leading global insurers like Allianz, Arch Insurance, Lloyd’s of London, Swiss Re and Zurich North America. Today, Coalition is one of the world’s largest commercial insurtech serving over 160,000 customers.

In June 2022, Coalition closed an additional $250 million in Series F Funding to accelerate its rapid growth at a time when many other companies struggled to find funding. This latest funding validated that Coalition is building a long-term business that can deliver profitable growth with a clear strategic advantage.

Coalition has experienced tremendous growth by helping organizations of all sizes solve real-world problems and by remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity and inclusion. We are proud to have been named among Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2021 and one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies for 2022.

About The Role

You’ll be writing backend services and helping design systems that guide an intricate set of business rules and allow those rules to map to deterministic outcomes. You enjoy making sure that all the logic branches of your system are well understood and tested and you focus on engineering excellence. You enjoy building APIs that are joyful to consume and making sure everyone identifies the lifecycle events of the services you build.

Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Go. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic judgements about how to scale and decouple systems as we continue to grow. We’re looking for someone who can navigate a cloud environment (AWS) with many moving pieces and systems to help the team identify how they fit into the broader puzzle.

Responsibilities

Build out high quality APIs and web services providing a scalable, efficient and tailored set of interfaces
Design, document and deploy public interfaces that are a joy to consume
Work with cross functional stakeholders including product, design, sales, and others to help break down business requirements into actionable plans
Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop and deliver applications in a repeatable, stable and joyful software development lifecycle
Develop test cases and work with QE to ensure engineering excellence
Make Coalition a better place by taking on the unseen, unforeseen and important items that come up along the way

Skills and Qualifications

Computer Science or Engineering degree - related technical discipline or equivalent work experience
API and service development in Python and/or Go
Production tested cloud native development fundamentals including horizontal scaling, 12-factor application design, security fundamentals like OWASP, etc
Assessing software errors with tools like Sentry, DataDog, Jaeger/Zipkin, GreyLog or App Dynamics
Container based deployment and development with Docker
Experience using multiple transports and formats (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
Use of source control - git, svn or perforce
Working with an agile team using collaborative development tools - Atlassian Suite, GitHub or GitLab
At least 3+ years of hands-on software development experience building APIs and services - It’s not the years, it’s the miles

Bonus Points

Production experience serving large user bases (100,000+)
Production experience with other languages such as Go, Scala and Rust
Development in distributed, event-driven and message-driven architectures

Why Coalition?

We’re a highly fulfilling, mission-driven team who is committed to building a more diverse and inclusive culture. We want to work with people of all different backgrounds and paths in life, and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership and put in the work, no matter how small the task. We are always looking for collaborative, inquisitive and dedicated individuals to join #OurCoalition and help us on our mission to solve digital risk.

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Coalition's very foundation is built on respecting and encouraging diversity and inclusion across the organization. Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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Backend Engineer II