Principal Software Engineer
Coalition
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
The Security Applications backend team owns APIs that serve our customer facing product, Coalition Control. We are rapidly expanding our security business, and are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who will help us build features in a simple, reliable and maintainable way. Sometimes that might mean prototyping a potential architecture, sometimes it might mean leading a small team of engineers to deliver a feature, and other times it might mean helping to debug a particularly gnarly issue with another engineer. Our tech stack is a mix of Go and Python running in AWS with a PostGres database. We are a remote first team with a core concentration on the east coast of US/Canada and Europe, and are targeting candidates that can work well with those time zones. Although our features are security-related, a strong software engineering background is a requirement for this role, and security experience is a nice to have.
Responsibilities
- Solve complex software problems with visible risks, roadblocks, and constraints, ensuring solutions are extensible and scalable.
- Improve software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value through innovative approaches.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy software, while demonstrating leadership in delegating work across teams of software engineers.
- Work with product managers to define technical solutions that meet high level business requirements, in a realistic way.
- Proactively simplify code and resolve team architecture dependencies, taking a tactical and strategic approach to work.
- Influence peers, managers, PMs, and directors, actively mentoring individuals and driving learning opportunities for the entire team.
- Lead projects aimed at streamlining team processes and implementing mechanisms to reduce churn during implementation.
- Exhibit self-driven and self-motivated behavior, actively finding time to prototype new ideas and resolving significant engineering problems without specific direction.
- Communicate proactively and positively with teams across engineering, taking responsibility for communication on larger projects.
Skills and Qualifications
- Deep understanding of microservice architectural design, with a specific focus on API and relational database design.
- Proven hands-on coding experience in developing complex software applications.
- Ability to guide and promote DevOps, with a proven track record of enhancing team practices to achieve improved reliability and performance, such as CI/CD, documentation, testing and monitoring/alerting.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to team members and stakeholders.
- A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, capable of working effectively in a diverse and fast-paced environment.
- Leadership experience of mentoring team members both directly and by fostering excellence via PR reviews.
- Experience with at least one of the following: Go, Python
Bonus Skills
- Prior experience with insurance or security technologies
- In-depth knowledge of AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and the Atlassian tool suite
- Experience working in the InfoSec, Tech and Cybersecurity markets
- Experience working with data at scale, data science/analytics, and data collection techniques
Compensation
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $159,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $234,125/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.
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, Wellhub, 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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Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.