Staff Software Engineer

Who you are

• Proven experience as a backend engineer designing and building distributed systems and cloud-based services in production
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including influencing architecture, setting technical standards, enabling other engineers, and collaborating effectively across teams
• Strong proficiency with AI workflows, Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/Node.js, or a similar modern backend language and framework. Experience with React.js is a plus
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs, as well as integrating with third-party APIs or platforms
• Solid understanding of security concepts and practices, with experience in a cybersecurity domain is a plus, but not strictly required
• Strong communication skills and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem solving

What the job involves

• This role is a Staff-level individual contributor position within the Security Engineering team, focused on Coalition Control, a security platform that helps protect our policyholders from cyber crime
• You’ll own critical backend services end-to-end, have broad autonomy to shape technical direction and will serve as a technical multiplier for the broader engineering team
• You’ll have access to leading AI tools so you can just cook
• Ship product fast: Work with Product, Design and Engineering to turn high-level product goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and contribute to development in a full-stack capacity with depth and expertise in backend
• Strengthen the platform: Own the technical vision, architecture, and expansion of the backend systems powering Coalition Control, while contributing to other Coalition Security Products
• Hold a high bar for engineering craft: Raise our standards for code, code reviews, testing, and reliability, leveraging AI-assisted workflows to build faster and reduce toil
• Unblock and elevate the team: Guide other engineers through architectural trade-offs, provide thoughtful yet speedy code reviews, and sharing knowledge with others

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• 401k plan
• Stock option plan
• Open vacation days
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance