Software Engineer I

Summary

Join Coalition, a leading Active Insurance provider, as an Executive Risks team engineer. This role involves building and designing backend services in Go, managing complex business rules, and ensuring high-quality APIs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and sales, to translate business needs into actionable plans. The ideal candidate possesses 0-2+ years of experience, a Computer Science or Engineering degree (or equivalent), and proficiency in API development and cloud-native principles. Coalition offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 0-2+ years of blended internship and/or professional development experience
• Computer Science or Engineering degree - related technical discipline or equivalent work experience
• API and service development in Go or a similar language
• Production tested cloud native development principles
• Analyzing software errors with tools like Sentry, DataDog, Jaeger/Zipkin, GreyLog or App Dynamics
• Container based deployment and development with Docker
• Experience using multiple transports and formats (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Use of source control - git, svn or perforce
• Working with an agile team using collaborative development tools - Atlassian Suite, GitHub or GitLab
• Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Build out high quality APIs and web services providing a scalable, efficient and tailored set of interfaces
• Design, document and deploy public interfaces that will be highly utilized
• Work with cross functional stakeholders including product, design, sales, and others to help break down business requirements into actionable plans
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop and deliver applications in a repeatable, stable and joyful software development lifecycle
• Develop test cases and work with QE to ensure engineering excellence
• Make Coalition a better place by taking on the unseen, unforeseen and important items that come up along the way

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience serving large user bases (10,000+)
• Development in distributed, event-driven and message-driven architectures using tools such as Kafka, SNS, and SQS

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