Software Engineer - Underwriting at Coalition | Powderkeg

Location: United States

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Engineering

About Us

Founded in 2017, Coalition is on a mission to solve cyber risk and create a safer digital economy where everyone can thrive. Digital risk is now a part of every business and it’s no longer solely the domain of technical teams. That’s why we combined comprehensive insurance with proactive cybersecurity tools to help organizations stay resilient to digital risks like cyber attacks, funds transfer fraud and much more.

Our team works collaboratively across North America and Europe to prevent security failures and provide both technical and financial help when incidents do occur. Today, Coalition is the world’s largest commercial insurtech serving over 130,000 customers including many small businesses that rely on Coalition to help them chart a path forward in the new digital world.

As of September 2021, Coalition has raised $520 million from leading global technology investors as well as highly-regarded institutional investors including: Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Valor Ventures, Durable Capital, T. Rowe Price Advisors, and Whale Rock Capital, valuing the company at more than $3.5 billion.

Coalition has experienced tremendous growth by helping organizations of all sizes solve real-world problems and by remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, authenticity and diversity. That’s why we are proud to be named one of Inc’s Best Places to Work in 2021.

About The Role

The underwriting team at Coalition is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that combine cutting-edge security data, insurance contract information, and additional proprietary data sources into a determination of cyber risk. You’ll be writing backend services and helping design systems that manage a complex set of business rules, statistical models, and machine learning to generate and track underwriting outcomes.

Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Go. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic decisions about how to scale and decouple systems as we continue to grow. You’ll be on an extremely cross functional team contributing against the heart of our risk codebase.mar

Responsibilities

  • Contribute high quality code against our risk-scoring, pricing, and underwriting systems
  • Interface with engineering teams, product managers, and business users to explain and improve our underwriting flow
  • Integrate both Coalition and third party systems with our underwriting services
  • Improve our data science, security team, and actuarial relationships by creating model training, serving, deployment, and monitoring infrastructure

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent training/fellowship/work experience
  • Experience with Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
  • Passion, drive, and a deep sense of responsibility. We create the systems that keep us and our customers safe!

Bonus Points

  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience with or a desire to learn data science and machine learning concepts

Why Coalition?

Coalition's culture is one that strongly values humility, authenticity, and diversity. We want to work with people of different backgrounds and different paths in life, and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership and work for one another. We are always looking for collaborative, inquisitive and dedicated individuals to join our team.

Coalition Engineering

Our culture is one of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, and authenticity. We are growing rapidly and that growth is enabled by strong teamwork, communication, and mentorship. We want people who are passionate about becoming experts in both the business and the technologies that support it. Our core platform is written mostly in Python with some services in Java and Go. We prefer to use the right tool for the job and make pragmatic decisions about how to scale and de-couple systems as we continue to grow. We’re looking for someone who can navigate a cloud environment (AWS) with many moving pieces and systems to help the team understand how they fit into the broader puzzle.

Recent press releases:

[Coalition Closes $205 Million Series E, Valuing the Cyber Insurance Provider At More Than $3.5 Billion](https://pulse2.com/coalition-205-million-series-e- funding-and-over-3-5-billion-valuation/)

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Software Engineer - Underwriting
  • Company
    Coalition
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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