Software Engineer, Underwriting

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.

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

About the role

The underwriting team at Coalition is responsible for building and maintaining systems that integrate cutting-edge security data, insurance contract information, and additional proprietary data sources to assess cyber risk. You’ll be writing backend services and assisting in designing systems that apply a combination of business rules, statistical models, and machine learning to determine and monitor underwriting outcomes. Our platform comprises services written in Python and Go. We prioritize selecting the most suitable tools for each task and make pragmatic decisions to scale and decouple systems as we expand. You'll work on an extremely cross-functional team that collaborates closely both internally and externally with the larger engineering organization.

This is a remote position that can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

• Write scalable and clean code, writing unit and integration tests, shipping with high quality and confidence
• Create alerts, monitors, and dashboards to ensure operational stability and observability
• Lead small projects independently or working with a team of engineers for medium-large projects, collaborating with stakeholders

Skills and Qualifications

• API and service development in Python and/or Go
• Assess software errors with tools like Sentry, DataDog, Jaeger/Zipkin, GreyLog, or Appdynamics
• Experience using multiple transports and formats (e.g., REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Use of source control - git, svn, or perforce
• Work experience in AWS or any public cloud
• Work with an agile team using collaborative development tools - Atlassian Suite, GitHub, or GitLab
• 0-2+ years of blended internship and/or professional development experience
• Computer Science or Engineering degree - related technical discipline or equivalent work experience

Bonus Points

• Insurance domain experience, in particular underwriting domain experience or actuarial experience

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

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 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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Accommodations

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