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 Auth/Accounts team builds the identity, authentication, authorization, and account capabilities on the critical path for Coalition’s products and internal operations. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across a complex, multi-service domain. You’ll turn ambiguous business and security challenges into clear technical architecture, lead cross-team initiatives from design to production, and raise operating standards across the broader engineering organization.Responsibilities
Technical Leadership: Lead major architecture and delivery initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships.
Architecture & API Design: Define multi-service technical direction—including API contracts, data models, migration paths, and rollout strategies.
Cross-Functional Execution: Translate complex product, security, and business requirements into clear designs, managing dependencies and alignment across cross-functional partners.
Engineering Excellence: Build scalable backend services while improving testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability.
Mentorship: Guide and grow engineers across teams, elevating technical design skills and multiplying engineering impact. Representative Focus Areas
Centralized auth, token validation, and fine-grained/relationship-based access control (RBAC/ReBAC).
Account identity, deduplication, matching, and transfer workflows.
Legacy system decoupling and modernizing broker/partner relationship logic.
Scalable event-driven services and APIs supporting core business platforms. Skills and Qualifications
Staff-Level Leadership: Proven track record of guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs.
Backend Fundamentals: Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations.
High-Stakes Problem Solving: Experience with high-risk domains where security, correctness, and performance are paramount.
Posting details
Remote
Yes
Employment type
Full-time
Workplace type
Remote
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First seen
10/6/2026, 2:10:24 AM
Last seen
10/6/2026, 2:10:24 AM
Communication & Mentorship: Ability to write clear design docs, align non-technical stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
AI Fluency: Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into daily engineering work, including code exploration, design analysis, test generation, debugging, and documentation. Able to evaluate AI output critically, recognize its limitations, and establish appropriate review and safety practices for security-sensitive systems. Bonus Points
Hands-on experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, or ReBAC systems (e.g., OpenFGA).
Proficiency with Go, Python, event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka), and AWS/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. Compensation Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $158,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $234,125/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 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. Visit our Newsroom > 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. Our Privacy Policy > 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 . 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.