[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering @Coalition, Inc.

Role Description

This role is a Staff-level individual contributor position within the Security Engineering team, focused on Coalition Control, a security platform that helps protect our policyholders from cyber crime. You’ll own critical backend services end-to-end, have broad autonomy to shape technical direction and will serve as a technical multiplier for the broader engineering team. You’ll have access to leading AI tools so you can just cook.

Responsibilities

• Ship product fast:
  • Work with Product, Design and Engineering to turn high-level product goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and contribute to development in a full-stack capacity with depth and expertise in backend.
• Strengthen the platform:
  • Own the technical vision, architecture, and expansion of the backend systems powering Coalition Control, while contributing to other Coalition Security Products.
• Hold a high bar for engineering craft:
  • Raise our standards for code, code reviews, testing, and reliability, leveraging AI-assisted workflows to build faster and reduce toil.
• Unblock and elevate the team:
  • Guide other engineers through architectural trade-offs, provide thoughtful yet speedy code reviews, and share knowledge with others.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a backend engineer designing and building distributed systems and cloud-based services in production.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including influencing architecture, setting technical standards, enabling other engineers, and collaborating effectively across teams.
• Strong proficiency with AI workflows, Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/Node.js, or a similar modern backend language and framework. Experience with React.js is a plus.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs, as well as integrating with third-party APIs or platforms.
• Solid understanding of security concepts and practices, with experience in a cybersecurity domain is a plus, but not strictly required.
• Strong communication skills and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem solving.

Requirements

• As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.
• In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $176,000/year up to $226,000/year.
• For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $158,400/year up to $208,400/year.
• 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 the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process.
• Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible PTO.
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement.