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Senior Backend Engineer (Python, Security Applications)

Coalition
  • fullTime
  • Posted : 3 months ago

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

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working across multiple software development projects that can range from API’s to scraping and ETL workflows. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, ensuring high performance and receptiveness across the platform.

Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Java and Go. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic judgements about how to scale and decouple systems as we continue to grow. We’re looking for someone who can navigate a cloud environment (AWS) with many moving pieces and systems to help the team identify how they fit into the broader puzzle.

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a remote team
  • Write REST APIs on the back-end and consume them on the front-end
  • Write back-end integrations with third-party services to aggregate and process data
  • Systems and data engineering: due to the large amounts of data we collect, speed and efficiency are perpetual concerns for our multi-worker architecture. 
  • You will join our engineering team and work closely with our product design team. As such, this role comes with a significant amount of autonomy and ownership. You should enjoy the challenge of building large, scalable infrastructure and components from the ground up. 
  • Review work done by other engineers

Skills and Qualifications

  • 4+ years experience developing software
  • Experienced in modern systems architectures and implementation
  • Python and one or more of its web server frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django, FastAPI)
  • Basic Golang with a knowledge of core HTTP REST implementations
  • Unit and end-to-end testing
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling
  • Experienced knowledge of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
  • Good English (spoken and written)

Bonus Points

  • Cloud Services
  • Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Storm
  • Golang service top practices for concurrent designs
  • Deployment automation and scalable infrastructure
  • Knowledge of HTTP / REST security concepts, including common vulnerabilities
  • Knowledge of other useful web technologies: Redux, Webpack, ES6, TypeScript, etc

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.

Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all individuals seeking employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. We also prohibit harassment or discrimination of applicants based on the above-protected categories. This policy covers all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, demotion, and termination of employment.

Accommodations

Coalition complies with US federal and state disability laws, and our policy is to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees unless the accommodation imposes an undue hardship. Contact us if you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process.

We consider qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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