Staff Software Engineer, Auth/Accounts

Coalition, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Home office stipend

WeWork access

Job summary

Coalition, a remote-first org, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across a complex, multi-service domain. You will translate ambiguous security challenges into clear architecture, lead design-to-production initiatives, and raise engineering standards across teams.

You will guide architectures for auth, RBAC, account lifecycles, and partner relations while mentoring engineers and driving scalable backend systems with strong testing and observability.

Qualifications

• Staff-Level Leadership with cross-team architecture experience.
• Backend fundamentals: API design, distributed systems, data modeling, production operations.
• High-stakes experience in security-sensitive domains.
• Strong communication to align stakeholders; mentor senior engineers.
• Ability to integrate AI tools into engineering workflows with safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead architecture and delivery across auth, authorization, and account lifecycles.
• Architecture & API Design: Define multi-service direction, API contracts, data models, migrations, rollouts.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Translate product/security requirements into clear designs; manage dependencies.
• Engineering Excellence: Build scalable backends; improve testing, observability, deployment safety, reliability.
• Mentorship: Grow engineers across teams and elevate design skills.

Skills

Staff leadership

Backend fundamentals

High-stakes problem solving

Communication & mentorship

AI fluency

OAuth/OIDC familiarity

Tools

OpenFGA

Kafka

Go

Python

AWS

Job description

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

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $176,000/year up to $226,000/year.

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $158,400/year up to $208,400/year.

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 the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Use of AI:We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.

Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, 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 in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.

Accommodations

Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [e-mail]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.