Software Engineer I

About the role

The team owns multiple backend services responsible for the questions and facts related to the insurance applications, the product catalog, automated underwriting and pricing, and the orchestration among the various backend services.  This highly collaborative team is building some of the core services used across the multiple lines of insurance offered by Coalition. 

As an Executive Risks team engineer, you write backend services and help design systems that manage a complex set of business rules and allow those rules to map to deterministic outcomes. You enjoy making sure that all the logic branches of your system are well understood and tested and you focus on engineering excellence. You enjoy building APIs that are joyful to consume and you make sure that everyone understands the lifecycle events of the services you build.  You enjoy a collaborative environment and have strong verbal and written communication skills.

Our team’s services are written in Go.  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
• 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)
• 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

• 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 $93,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $138,000/year in our highest geographic market. 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 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