Software Engineer, Documents

Posted 16 Days Ago
Canada
1-3 Years Experience
Insurance • Cybersecurity
The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Documents team, you will develop and maintain scalable document systems, ensuring code quality and operational stability. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in agile practices, lead small projects, and assist in mentoring junior team members.
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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 Documents team is a critical Tier 1 platform team, ensuring the accuracy, quality, and integrity of all documents generated within our insurance platform. These documents play a vital role in delivering policies, contracts, and legal communications, making them essential to the customer experience and the overall platform’s success.

As an engineer on the Documents team, you will actively contribute to the development and execution of key projects. You will lead small-scale initiatives while collaborating with your peers and cross-functional teams, ensuring the reliability and scalability of our document systems. In this role, you’ll work closely with product and business stakeholders to ensure the alignment of document outputs with business requirements, while driving improvements in document generation and quality.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations, contributing to maintaining operational stability, and will be an active participant in agile practices like sprints, retrospectives, and planning sessions. As an engineer, you'll have opportunities to step into leadership roles, guide junior team members, and make impactful contributions to both team success and broader platform goals.

Responsibilities

  • Write scalable, efficient, and maintainable code with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
  • Develop and execute comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, ensuring code is deployed with confidence and high quality.
  • Implement robust alerting, monitoring, and dashboarding solutions to proactively maintain operational stability and system observability.
  • Lead small-scale projects independently or collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams on medium to large projects, partnering with stakeholders for successful delivery.
  • Participate in peer code reviews, contributing to team knowledge sharing and maintaining coding best practices.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 1-3 years of professional software development experience or a combination of internships and relevant project work.
  • Proficient in modern programming languages, preferably Python or Golang, with a strong focus on writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures, including design, scalability, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience working with public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a focus on cloud-native services and infrastructure management.
  • Familiarity with observability concepts, such as log aggregation, tracing, and metrics collection, and the tools to implement them.
  • Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases and an understanding of when to apply each based on application needs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate with product and business stakeholders, simplify complex ideas, and drive consensus.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly identify issues and develop effective solutions for resolving challenges or unique problem sets.

Bonus Points

  • Domain knowledge in insurance, document creation, configurable services.
  • Full stack engineer, capable of developing both front-end and back-end code.
  • Experience with monitoring solutions such as Datadog.
  • Familiarity with designing and authoring technical design documents, explaining complex systems or features.
  • Exposure to AI/ML concepts, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), and how they can be applied to practical solutions.

Perks

  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
  • Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, 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’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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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. 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 by emailing [email protected] if you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process.

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

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
618 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Coalition is the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Coalition’s unique product offerings combine best-in-class insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help keep businesses safe.

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