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Founded in 2017, Coalition combines cybersecurity and insurance to help organizations prevent digital risk before it strikes. Coalition’s Active Insurance policies combine traditional coverage with a digital risk assessment and monitoring technology to help small and medium-sized businesses protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
 
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 Principal 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 and integration internally/externally, 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, so that front end engineers can consume them
  • Write back-end integrations with third-party services to aggregate data and process data
  • Write scrapers and web collection components
  • Systems and data engineering: due to the large amounts of data we collect, speed and efficiency are perpetual concerns for our multi-worker architecture
  • Join engineering team and work closely with our product design team. This role comes with a senior engineer to get paired with you and guide you on improving over time
  • Review work done by the Engineers of the team

Skills and Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience developing software
  • Knowledgeable in modern systems architectures and implementation
  • Python and one or more of its web server frameworks (e.g. FAST API, Flask, Django)
  • Unit and end-to-end testing
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling
  • Experienced knowledge of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Mentor and Organize tasks assignments for team members

Bonus Points

  • Cloud Services
  • Golang with a demonstrable knowledge of core HTTP REST implementations
  • Golang service top practices for concurrent designs
  • Deployment automation and scalable infrastructure (Code-as-Infrastructure)
  • Knowledge of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities

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Why Coalition? 
 
We’re a highly fulfilling, mission-driven team who is committed to building a more diverse and inclusive culture. We want to work with people of all different backgrounds and paths in life, and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership and put in the work, no matter how small the task. We are always looking for collaborative, inquisitive and dedicated individuals to join #OurCoalition and help us on our mission to solve digital risk.
 
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