Senior Backend Engineer

About Us

At Coalition, we bring together cyber tools, data, and deep security expertise to help customers solve cyber risk. We have over 25,000 customers, ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies, and that number is growing fast.

This is a generalist role and we have many projects and tasks that you can take on, depending on your preferred area of focus. You will join our engineering team and work closely with our product design team. As such, this role comes with a significant amount of autonomy and responsibility. You should enjoy the challenge of building large, scalable infrastructure / components from the ground up. Broadly, we offer the following areas of work:

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 decisions 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 understand how they fit into the broader puzzle.

• Designing and implementing features/services for business logic of the complex and nuanced insurance industry.
• Writing REST APIs on the backend, and consuming them on the frontend.
• Implementing robust document generation and version management systems.
• Writing backend integrations with thirdparty services to aggregate data, process payments, send emails, sign documents, etc.
• Systems and data engineering: due to the large amounts of data we collect, speed and efficiency are perpetual concerns for our multiworker architecture.
• Data science: using the data we have collected, designing riskpricing models to better write insurance for technical vulnerabilities.
• Infrastructure: container based development environments, scalable microservices, and cloudbased hosting environments.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Python and one or more of its web server frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django)
• Golang with a demonstrable understanding of core HTTP REST implementations or OpenAPI/Swagger scaffolding.
• React or other modern front-end development frameworks
• SQL, ORM implementations and design patterns, and pure relational data modeling patterns
• Demonstrable experience building scalable enterprise CRUD applications
• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Testing frameworks and CI/CD best practices
• Git and agile workflows

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with our specific stack (Linux, Postgres, Python 3.7, SQLAlchemy, Flask, React)
• Experience with Golang service best practices for concurrent designs
• Experience with deployment automation and scalable infrastructure
• Experience with building service oriented architectures and distributed systems
• Knowledge of other useful web technologies: Redux, Webpack, ES6, TypeScript, etc.
• Understanding of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities
• Solid technical skills in both information security architecture and penetration testing

Perks

• Enjoy a highly fulfilling, mission-driven culture
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) plan
• Wellness and commuter benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Open vacation days
• We embrace distributed work; some benefits will vary by location
• You are an owner! We offer stock options to each of our employees
• More details at https://www.coalitioninc.com/careers

Why Coalition?

We are all here to build something we believe in and to make a company that will last. We're also assembling a team of expert incident responders, threat and malware researchers, and security analysts to protect our customers before, during, and after a cyber incident. Our goal is to harness the power of technology with the safety of insurance, to provide the first holistic solution to cyber risk. Coalition's culture is one that strongly values humility, authenticity, and diversity. We want to work with people of different backgrounds and different paths in life, and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership and work for one another. We are always looking for collaborative, inquisitive and dedicated individuals to join our team.

Coalition Engineering

Our culture is one of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, and authenticity. We are growing rapidly and that growth is enabled by strong teamwork, communication, and mentorship. We want people who are passionate about becoming experts in both the business and the technologies that support it. 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 decisions about how to scale and de-couple 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 understand how they fit into the broader puzzle.

Recent press releases:

• https://news.crunchbase.com/news/coalition-secures-90m-series-c-at-890m-...
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/05/28/next-billion-dollar-s...

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.