Job description
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 Senior 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
- Write back-end integrations with third-party services to aggregate and process data
- 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. As such, this role comes with a significant amount of autonomy and ownership. You should enjoy the challenge of building large, scalable infrastructure and components from the ground up.
- Review work done by other engineers
Skills and Qualifications
- 4-8 years experience developing software
- Experienced 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)
- Good English (spoken and written)
Bonus Points
- Cloud Services
- Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Storm
- Golang service top practices for concurrent designs
- Deployment automation and scalable infrastructure
- Knowledge of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities
- Knowledge of other useful web technologies: Redux, Webpack, ES6, TypeScript, etc
Perks
- 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO policy
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Gympass, and more)!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- Coalition's individual pay is determined on several factors, including but not limited to, location, level, skills and experience. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$205,000, and your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process.
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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
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