About us

Coalition is the worlds 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.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

Join the innovative Executive Risks Experience team, where youll collaborate closely with front-end engineers while primarily focusing on developing and enhancing the underlying back-end services that are essential to our projects. As a core contributor, you will ensure the effective integration and performance of our microservices within a Golang-based back-end environment.

While youll be embedded within a team proficient in front-end technologies such as React and TypeScript, your primary focus will be on back-end development tasks. You will play a crucial role in designing systems that manage complex business rules, ensuring they deliver precise and efficient solutions. Your work will include developing robust APIs that seamlessly integrate with front-end applications using GraphQL for back-end-for-frontend interactions.

In addition to your back-end responsibilities, you may occasionally contribute to front-end tasks, making smaller changes as needed to support the overall project goals. This flexibility and adaptability enhance our teams ability to deliver comprehensive solutions efficiently.

We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic decisions about how to scale and decouple systems as we continue to grow. We are looking for someone who can navigate a cloud environment (AWS) with many moving pieces and systems to help the team understand how they fit into the broader puzzle.

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 will be highly utilized
Work with cross functional stakeholders including product, design, sales, 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
Support front-end tasks as needed, including participating in on-call rotations for front-end applications
Make Coalition a better place by taking on the unseen, unforeseen and important items that come up along the way

Skills and Qualifications

0-2+ years of blended internship and/or professional development experience
Computer Science or Engineering degree - related technical discipline or equivalent work experience
API and service development in Go or a similar language.
Production tested cloud native development principles
Analyzing software errors with tools like Sentry, DataDog, Jaeger/Zipkin, GreyLog or App Dynamics
Container based deployment and development with Docker
Experience using multiple transports and formats (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
Willingness to assist with front-end tasks as needed and enthusiasm to learn about front-end technologies
Use of source control - git, svn or perforce
Working with an agile team using collaborative development tools - Atlassian Suite, GitHub or GitLab
Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment

Bonus Points

Familiarity or experience with front-end technologies, such as React, TypeScript, and related tools
Production experience serving large user bases (10,000+)
Development in distributed, event-driven and message-driven architectures using tools such as Kafka, SNS, and SQS

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $99,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $130,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employees 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?

We’re a remote-first, 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’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join ## OurCoalition.

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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.