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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.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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.
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.
- 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...
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