Senior Engineering Manager, Security Engineering

Summary

Join Coalition, a leading Active Insurance provider, and build the next generation of backend services and data infrastructure to protect enterprise insurance and security customers. Lead engineering activities, deliver product features on time, and provide technical expertise to automate processes. Mentor engineers, manage technical debt, and collaborate with product and business teams. Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation and maintain transparent communication. Actively participate in growing the engineering organization. This role requires significant software engineering experience, including team management, and expertise in building distributed systems. Coalition offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years overall software engineering experience with 3+ years experience managing a team of at least 5 people
• Effective in leading and mentoring staff with various technical backgrounds and expertise
• Strong collaborator, with a track record of understanding customer/stakeholder needs and building to solve them
• Understanding of software development processes with the experience to apply the best type of engineering methodology to fit a situation or team dynamic
• Experience building reliable high volume distributed systems in a cloud environment
• Proven track record of successfully delivering software and managing projects across multiple teams
• Sufficient level of technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities
• Ability to have meticulous attention to requirements while also maintaining awareness of the overall business objectives
• Experience building API-first CRUD applications
• Expert knowledge of at least one area of computer science/engineering
• Excellent oral and written communications skills at all levels

Responsibilities

• Build the next gen of backend service and data infra to protect enterprise insurance and security customers
• Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully deliver product features on time while designing for quality and scalability
• Provide technical expertise and software engineering guidance to automate processes and improve team efficiency
• Provide management and mentorship to engineers in order to seek out identification of skill gaps and growth needs
• Balance managing technical debt with new feature development and business priorities
• Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment
• Collaborate with Product and Business staff to balance resources and project schedules
• Maintain transparent communication across all levels of the organization
• Actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc

Benefits

• 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