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Coalition

Active cyber insurance with risk management

Staff Software Engineer - Auth/Accounts

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in CanadaCA$158.4k - CA$226k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven track record of guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs.
  • Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations.
  • Experience with high-risk domains where security, correctness, and performance are paramount.
  • Ability to write clear design documents, align non-technical stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into daily engineering work, including code exploration, design analysis, test generation, debugging, and documentation; critically evaluate AI output, recognize its limitations, and establish appropriate review and safety practices for security-sensitive systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead major architecture and delivery initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships.
  • Define multi-service technical direction, including API contracts, data models, migration paths, and rollout strategies.
  • Translate complex product, security, and business requirements into clear designs, managing dependencies and alignment across cross-functional partners.
  • Build scalable backend services while improving testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability.
  • Guide and grow engineers across teams, elevating technical design skills and multiplying engineering impact.
  • Develop centralized authentication, token validation, and fine-grained or relationship-based access control.
  • Develop account identity, deduplication, matching, and transfer workflows.
  • Decouple legacy systems and modernize broker and partner relationship logic.
  • Build scalable event-driven services and APIs supporting core business platforms.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, or ReBAC systems such as OpenFGA.
  • Proficiency with Go, Python, event-driven architecture such as Kafka, and AWS or modern CI/CD stacks.
  • Background in security-sensitive environments, fintech, insurtech, or complex partner integration platforms.
  • Experience creating reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows, tools, prompts, or agent skills that improve team productivity and engineering quality.
  • Experience applying AI responsibly in security-sensitive or regulated environments, including protecting sensitive information and validating generated code and recommendations.

About the Company

Coalition

Active cyber insurance with risk management

Coalition blends Active Insurance with proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses prevent digital risk. Its platform, Coalition Control, delivers automated cyber alerts, risk-management guidance, and third-party risk management. The company differentiates itself as the world’s first Active Insurance provider, backed by partnerships with major insurers and its own insurer, Coalition Insurance Company, plus Coalition Security Labs for education and insights. Its goal is to prevent cyber incidents by combining risk transfer with proactive protection to help organizations manage digital risk more effectively.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Series F
Total funding
$770M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2017

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