Posted 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Underwriting
@ Coalition, Inc.
Canada
Overview
Coalition, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Underwriting team to design and build backend services that power cyber insurance underwriting decisions. The role integrates security, insurance and proprietary data with statistical and machine learning models, and works remotely across Canada. The posting states a base salary of $149,600 to $199,600 per year in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, and $134,600 to $184,600 elsewhere, with flexible PTO and full medical, dental and vision coverage.
Pay:
$134,600–$199,600 a year
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain scalable backend services in Python and/or Go
- Integrate statistical and machine learning models for risk assessment and pricing
- Create alerts, monitors and dashboards for operational stability
- Write tested code and lead small projects end-to-end
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions
Requirements summary:
- Strong experience building and operating backend APIs in Python and/or Go
- Hands-on experience with REST and at least one of gRPC or GraphQL
- Experience deploying services in AWS or another public cloud
- Familiarity with observability and error-tracking tools
- Experience on agile teams using Atlassian, GitHub or GitLab
- Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-07-10
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-02
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Engineering |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Wellness, Home office allowance |
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Coalition, Inc.
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Full company description
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. By combining comprehensive insurance coverage and cybersecurity tools, Coalition helps businesses manage and mitigate potential cyber attacks. Coalition offers its Active Insurance products to policyholders in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia through Coalition’s relationships with leading global insurers and cyber capacity through its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company. Coalition also provides automated cyber alerts, expert guidance and advice, and third-party risk management to businesses worldwide through its holistic cyber risk management platform, Coalition Control. Coalition also offers Wirespeed Managed Detection & Response, a 24/7 fully automated MDR that initiates mitigation in milliseconds to shut down threats before they can wreak havoc.
- LinkedIn followers
- 211,704
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 710
- Reported office locations
- 44 Montgomery St., Suite 4210, San Francisco, California 94104, US
- Business categories
- Information Technology
- Cyber Security
- Risk Management
- InsurTech
- Insurance
- Other recorded names
- Coalition - Germany
- Coalition - Germany
- Coalition - France
- Coalition - UK
- Coalition - Australia
- Coalition - UK
- Coalition - Australia
- Coalition, Inc.
- Specialties
- Cyber Insurance
- Cybersecurity
- Security Services
- Active Insurance
- Executive Risks
- Insurance
- Risk Management
- Cyber Risk
- and Digital Risk
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 800,000,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. By combining comprehensive insurance coverage and cybersecurity tools, Coalition helps businesses manage and mitigate potential cyber attacks. Coalition offers its Active Insurance products to policyholders in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia through Coalition’s relationships with leading…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Insurance |
| Company size | 501-1,000 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | Cyber Insurance CybersecuritySecurity ServicesActive InsuranceExecutive Risks InsuranceRisk ManagementCyber Riskand Digital Risk |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 14 |
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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 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
The Senior Software Engineer on the Underwriting team designs and builds backend services and systems that power Coalition’s cyber insurance underwriting decisions. They integrate security, insurance, and proprietary data to apply business rules, statistical models, and machine learning in assessing and monitoring risk. This role is highly cross-functional, partnering closely with underwriters, data science, and other engineering teams to scale and automate Coalition’s underwriting and core decisioning workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Python and/or Go that power underwriting decisioning and automation.
- Implement and evolve systems that integrate with statistical models, and machine learning models to assess, price, and monitor cyber risk over time.
- Create and maintain alerts, monitors, and dashboards to ensure operational stability, observability, and clear incident response paths.
- Write clean, well-structured, and tested code, including robust unit and integration tests to enable confident, frequent releases.
- Lead small projects end-to-end and act as a technical driver within a team of engineers on medium-to-large initiatives, collaborating with product, underwriting, and data partners.
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions that balance pragmatism, scalability, and decoupling as the underwriting platform grows.
- Help automate and improve the underwriting and decisioning workflows used by internal underwriters and risk teams.
Skills and Qualifications
- Strong experience building and operating backend APIs and services in Python and/or Go, including familiarity with common frameworks and patterns.
- Hands-on experience with REST and at least one additional transport or format such as gRPC or GraphQL.
- Experience using source control systems (e.g., Git or similar).
- Practical experience deploying and running services in AWS or another major public cloud environment.
- Familiarity with modern observability and error-tracking tools such as Sentry, Datadog, Jaeger/Zipkin, Graylog, or AppDynamics.
- Experience working on an agile software team and using collaborative development tools such as the Atlassian suite, GitHub, or GitLab.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- P4-caliber ownership: ability to independently drive projects of moderate scope, make sound technical tradeoffs, and mentor less-experienced engineers.
Compensation
As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.
In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $149,600/year up to $199,600/year.
For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $134,600/year up to $184,600/year.
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 the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.
Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Use of AI: We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.
Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.
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?
Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
Privacy Notice
Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable. Information submitted, collected, and processed as part of your application is subject to Coalition's Privacy Policy. For further details, please review our full Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions regarding how your information is handled.
Safe Hiring Notice
All legitimate communication from Coalition comes from @coalitioninc.com emails, and open roles are listed only on our Careers page. We never ask for payment, banking details, or personal identification before an offer is accepted through our secure systems. If you believe you’ve been a victim of fraudulent recruiting, follow guidance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
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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