Principal Software Engineer, Coalition

Documents

Salary not provided
Expert level
Remote in Canada
Coalition

Cyber insurance and security for businesses

Open for applications

Coalition

Cyber insurance and security for businesses

501-1000 employees

B2BInsuranceSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Expert level
Remote in Canada

501-1000 employees

B2BInsuranceSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

To protect the unprotected from technology failures and cyber-attacks, helping manage risk online so they can focus on growth.

Role

Who you are

  • Proven hands-on coding experience in developing complex software applications
  • Deep understanding of microservice architectural design, with a specific focus on business logic
  • Proficient in mentoring and guiding the team on design patterns and potential pitfalls
  • Previous experience managing on-call duties for incident response, ensuring the team's ability to handle and resolve issues efficiently
  • Demonstrated expertise in implementing monitoring and observability practices for maintaining system health and performance
  • Proven track record of enhancing team practices to achieve improved reliability and performance
  • A strong background in elevating software quality within a team
  • Ability to guide and promote testing, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), code reviews, and other quality practices to ensure robust and bug-free software
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to team members and stakeholders
  • A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, capable of working effectively in a diverse and fast-paced environment
  • Able to communicate pros and cons of solutions as well as garner buy in for leaders on technical investment
  • Strong problem-solving skills to analyze complex technical issues and devise effective solutions
  • Leadership capabilities to inspire and mentor team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence
  • Strong customer focus and focused on building solutions that enable our business stakeholders
  • A focus on building solutions for other teams that enable their efficiency and velocity via creative tooling

Desirable

  • Experience in Document Generation: Expertise in working with document generation related services
  • Template Management Proficiency: Experience in handling template related services to create and manage document templates
  • Backend and Front End Experience: Experience in full stack development
  • Scaling Document Generation: A background in scaling document generation processes to handle increased demands efficiently
  • Accuracy and Precision: The ability to prioritize accuracy and precision in document generation
  • Project Management: Experience in managing cross team technical projects

What the job involves

  • As a Principal Engineer on the document team, your role holds immense significance in shaping the trajectory of our company
  • Your wide-ranging experiences, professional concepts, and deep understanding of engineering will be instrumental in supporting our company objectives and tackling complex challenges with creativity and effectiveness
  • Your expertise will be pivotal in defining technology strategies that directly address critical business problems, leading to the delivery of innovative solutions that set new benchmarks
  • Within our team, you will not only be at the forefront of defining team architecture and technical solutions but also wield influence that extends to related teams and your team members during projects
  • Your impact on software architecture, performance enhancements, and overall business value will be profound, leaving a lasting imprint on our organization's success
  • As a natural leader within the team, you will have the opportunity to mentor and coach other engineers, guiding them in the art of designing, developing, testing, and deploying software
  • Your leadership will inspire excellence and elevate the capabilities of the entire team, amplifying our collective potential to achieve resilience and quality
  • With your visionary guidance and technical prowess, our documents team will redefine the efficiency and effectiveness of document generation
  • Utilize wide-ranging experience, professional concepts, and company objectives to creatively and effectively resolve complex issues
  • Define technology strategies to address business problems and deliver solutions independently
  • Focus on team architecture and product solutions, extending influence to related teams during projects
  • Hands on coding and delivery, while also offering guidance and support for other engineers on the team
  • Deliver and lead high impact projects and solutions
  • Solve complex software problems with visible risks, roadblocks, and constraints, ensuring solutions are extensible and scalable
  • Impact software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value through innovative approaches
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy software, while demonstrating leadership in managing large projects and delegating work for a small team of SDEs
  • Proactively simplify code and resolve team architecture dependencies, taking a tactical and strategic approach to work
  • Mitigate long-term risks and find viable paths forward in difficult situations
  • Lead projects aimed at streamlining team processes and implementing mechanisms to reduce churn during implementation
  • Exhibit self-driven and self-motivated behavior, actively finding time to prototype new ideas and resolving significant engineering problems without specific direction
  • Communicate proactively and positively with teams across engineering, taking responsibility for communication on larger projects
  • Influence peers, managers, PMs, and directors, actively mentoring individuals and driving learning opportunities for the entire team, such as brown bags and learning series

Our take

The cybersecurity industry has been going through a record-breaking period of investment. This trend has emerged as more companies move to cloud-based networks following the increase of out-of-office work, thus increasing the risk of cyber attacks. However, many cutting-edge cyber defences are too expensive for many companies.

Coalition’s joint offering of cyber security tools, a risk management platform, and cyber insurance allows companies to manage the ever-present risk of cyber threats.

The company has made a strong start since its 2017 launch, raising nearly $800 million in funding. There are a number of other fast-growth startups in the cybersecurity space, including Wiz and Orca Security, but Coalition’s shrewd insurance-based model is what sets it apart from the competition. The company has set out on a path toward global expansion, branching out from the US and Canadian markets to bring its solutions to the UK, whilst also acquiring smaller competitors like JUMBO.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

100% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jul 2022

$250m

SERIES F

Sep 2021

$205m

SERIES E

Total funding: $770m

Company benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • 401k plan
  • Stock option plan
  • Open vacation days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Character - We are never too big to do the small things that need to be done. We balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task
  • Humility - We aren’t afraid to ask questions, including simple ones like: can we do this better?
  • Responsibility - We are building an environment of personal and professional development, in which an individual takes responsibility and shares ownership
  • Purpose - The more you have to play for, the better you play. We are all here to build something we believe in and to make a company that will last
  • Authenticity - We refuse to be distracted by the clamor of competitors or the tired industry in which we operate. We have the courage to follow our heart and intuition
  • Diversity - The strength of the wolf is the pack. We’ve built an environment where all team members can thrive irrespective of their ideas, creed, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other arbitrary subdivision

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

After studying at the University of Chicago, Joshua worked at Goldman Sachs for a year before moving to Private Equity at Francisco Partners, and working as an IGNIA Partners Investor. He left his role at Cloudflare to co-found Coalition in March 2017.

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