Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering - Coalition

About Coalition

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the Role

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 serve as a technical multiplier for the broader engineering team. You’ll also have access to leading AI tools to accelerate development.

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 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 across the organization.

Skills and 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; experience in a cybersecurity domain is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem-solving.

Compensation & Pay Ranges

Base salary ranges in Canadian geographic markets:

• Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario: $176,000 CAD – $226,000 CAD / year
• All other Canadian locations: $158,400 CAD – $208,400 CAD / year

Pay within these ranges is determined based on relevant skills, experience, education, and geographic location.

Perks & Benefits

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