Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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 provide technical leadership across authentication, authorization, identity, and account capabilities, leading architecture and cross-team initiatives while improving engineering standards and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- **Technical Leadership:** Lead major architecture and delivery initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships
- **Architecture & API Design:** Define multi-service technical direction—including API contracts, data models, migration paths, and rollout strategies
- **Cross-Functional Execution:** Translate complex product, security, and business requirements into clear designs, managing dependencies and alignment across cross-functional partners
- **Engineering Excellence:** Build scalable backend services while improving testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability
- **Mentorship:** Guide and grow engineers across teams, elevating technical design skills and multiplying engineering impact
Skills
- Proven track record of guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs
- Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations
- Experience with high-risk domains where security, correctness, and performance are paramount
- Ability to write clear design docs, align non-technical stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into daily engineering work, including code exploration, design analysis, test generation, debugging, and documentation
- Able to evaluate AI output critically, recognize its limitations, and establish appropriate review and safety practices for security-sensitive systems
- Hands-on experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, or ReBAC systems (e.g., OpenFGA)
- Proficiency with Go, Python, event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka), and AWS/modern CI/CD stacks
- Background in security-sensitive environments, fintech, insurtech, or complex partner integration platforms
- Experience creating reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows, tools, prompts, or agent skills that improve team productivity and engineering quality
- Experience applying AI responsibly in security-sensitive or regulated environments, including protecting sensitive information and validating generated code and recommendations
Benefits
- 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)!
- Opportunity for advancement
- Remote-first culture
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