Backend Engineer
Austin, TX, United States
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 broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
About the Role
The Digital Distribution team at Coalition is responsible for developing and maintaining a platform that enables partners access to our core technology platform through APIs, Webhook events and custom portals. We focus on creating a frictionless experience for any external or internal team to seamlessly and quickly enable business flows that impact customers. As a senior engineer on the team you will lead efforts that help achieve this goal. You will be writing backend services and helping design systems that ensure the partners get an accurate actionable insurance quote with as little latency as possible.
Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Go. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic judgments about how to scale and decoupled systems as we continue to grow. You’ll be on an extremely cross-functional team contributing against the heart of our risk.
This is a remote position that can be based anywhere in the United States.
Responsibilities
Build out high quality APIs and web services providing a scalable, efficient and tailored set of interfaces
Design, document and deploy public interfaces that are a joy to consume
Work with cross functional stakeholders including product, design, sales, Data and others to help break down business requirements into actionable plans
Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop and deliver applications in a repeatable, stable and joyful software development lifecycle
Develop test cases and work with QE to ensure engineering excellence
Make Coalition a better place by taking on the unseen, unforeseen and important items that come up along the way
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent training/fellowship/work experience
Experience with API and service development in Python, Go, or similar languages
Container-based deployment and development with Docker
Assessing software errors with tools like Sentry, DataDog, Jaeger/Zipkin, GreyLog or App Dynamics
Experience using multiple transports and formats (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
Experience with using and deploying services on cloud platforms like AWS
Be able to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
Passion, drive, and a deep sense of ownership
At least 3+ years of hands-on software development experience - It’s not the years, it’s the miles
Bonus Points
Production experience serving large user bases (100,000+)
Production experience with other languages such as Go, Scala and Rust
Development in distributed, event-driven and message-driven architectures
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
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Why Coalition?
We’re a highly fulfilling, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain 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 in 2021 and 2023 and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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