Backend Engineer – Customer Security

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

As a Backend Engineer, you will be working across multiple software development projects that can range from API’s to scraping and ETL workflows. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, ensuring high performance and receptiveness across the platform.

Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Java and 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

• Be part of a remote team
• Write REST APIs on the back-end, and consume them on the front-end
• Writing back-end integrations with third-party services to aggregate data and process data
• Writing scrapers and web collection components
• Systems and data engineering: due to the large amounts of data we collect, speed and efficiency are perpetual concerns for our multi-worker architecture
• You will join our engineering team and work closely with our product design team. This role comes with a senior engineer to get paired with you and guide you on improving over time
• Review work done by other engineers

Skills And Qualifications

• 1-3 years experience developing software
• Knowledgeable in modern systems architectures and implementation
• Python and one or more of its web server frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django, FastAPI)
• Basic Golang with a knowledge of core HTTP REST implementations
• Unit and end-to-end testing
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling
• Experienced knowledge of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Bonus Points

• Cloud Services
• Golang service top practices for concurrent designs
• Deployment automation and scalable infrastructure
• Knowledge of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities
• Other useful web technologies: Redux, Webpack, ES6, TypeScript, etc.

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.

Recent press releases:

To learn more, check out our featured press releases:

• Coalition Closes $250 Million in Series F Funding, Valuing the Cyber Insurance Provider at $5 Billion
• Coalition Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022
• Coalition Launches Active Insurance, Reaches $650M Run Rate GWP
• Coalition launches tech-powered executive risks products with personalized risk assessment for all US small-businesses

Coalition’s very foundation is built on respecting and encouraging diversity and inclusion across the organization. We respect and encourage diversityCoalition 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.