Staff Software Engineer, Auth/Accounts

About this role

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. 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 401(k) retirement plan with competitive employer match Flexible PTO Up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents Annual home office stipend and WeWork access Mental & physical health wellness programs like 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

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