Staff Software Engineer, Auth/Accounts About usCoalition 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. About the roleThe 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.

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. Build scalable backend services while improving testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability. Guide and grow engineers across teams, elevating technical design skills and multiplying engineering impact.

Centralized auth, token validation, and fine-grained/relationship-based access control (RBAC/ReBAC). Account identity, deduplication, matching, and transfer workflows. Staff-Level Leadership: Proven track record of guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs.

Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations.

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

Proficiency with Go, Python, event-driven architecture (e.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. CompensationAs a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets. 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.

Use of AIWe 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. 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage Versatile PTO Annual home office stipend and WeWork access 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.

Privacy

NoticeCoalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable.

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We never ask for payment, banking details, or personal identification before an offer is accepted through our secure systems. If you believe you’ve been a victim of fraudulent recruiting, follow guidance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 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. AccommodationsCoalition 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.

📌 Staff Software Engineer, Auth/Accounts (Winnipeg)
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