Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Coalition is an Active Insurance provider that combines insurance coverage with cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate digital risk. The Staff Software Engineer will own backend services for the Coalition Control security platform, shape technical architecture, contribute across the stack, and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Ship product fast: Work with Product, Design and Engineering to turn high-level product goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and contribute to development in a full-stack capacity with depth and expertise in backend
• Strengthen the platform: Own the technical vision, architecture, and expansion of the backend systems powering Coalition Control, while contributing to other Coalition Security Products
• Hold a high bar for engineering craft: Raise our standards for code, code reviews, testing, and reliability, leveraging AI-assisted workflows to build faster and reduce toil
• Unblock and elevate the team: Guide other engineers through architectural trade-offs, provide thoughtful yet speedy code reviews, and sharing knowledge with others

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a backend engineer designing and building distributed systems and cloud-based services in production
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including influencing architecture, setting technical standards, enabling other engineers, and collaborating effectively across teams
• Strong proficiency with AI workflows, Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/Node.js, or a similar modern backend language and framework
• Experience with React.js is a plus
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs, as well as integrating with third-party APIs or platforms
• Solid understanding of security concepts and practices
• Strong communication skills and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem solving
• Solid understanding of security concepts and practices, with experience in a cybersecurity domain is a plus, but not strictly required