Software Engineer II

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 comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the Role

You’ll be writing backend services and helping design systems that manage a complex 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 understands the lifecycle events of the services you build.

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 enhance automated testing suite 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

• 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 Appdynamics

• 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

• 3-5+ years of blended internship and/or professional development experience

• Computer Science or Engineering degree - related technical discipline or equivalent work experience

Nice-to-have skills:

• Production experience serving large user bases (100,000+)

• Development in distributed, event-driven and message-driven architectures

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?

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining 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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