Software Engineer Engineer, Underwriting

About the 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

As a Software Engineer on Coalition’s Underwriting Workbench team, you’ll build the platform our underwriters use to make informed decisions at scale. You’ll work across Engineering, Product, Design, and underwriting to turn complex workflows into fast, clear, and trustworthy experiences, including interfaces for AI-assisted underwriting.

Responsibilities

- Build and improve the core Workbench experience for underwriters and the teams that work alongside them.

- Keep a data-heavy application fast, responsive, and reliable as usage grows.

- Create interfaces for AI-assisted workflows that are clear, useful, and trustworthy.

- Partner with Product Management and Design to shape requirements and solve meaningful user problems.

- Work directly with underwriters to understand how they work and translate those insights into product improvements.

- Raise technical quality through code reviews, testing, reusable components, and contributions to the technical roadmap.

Skills and Qualifications

- Two or more years of professional software development experience, with a degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience building web-based user interfaces with modern TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.

- Experience integrating frontend applications with REST APIs and working effectively with backend engineers.

- Comfort managing complex application state, including tables, filters, saved views, optimistic updates, and synchronized workflows.

- Experience diagnosing frontend performance and reliability issues using tools such as Chrome DevTools, Sentry, or Datadog.

- Strong product judgment and a practical approach to making progress through ambiguity.

- Experience with Git or comparable source-control tools and agile software development practices.

- Curiosity about how systems work and a willingness to learn deeply, collaborate openly, and incorporate feedback from users and teammates.

Bonus Points

- Experience building internal tools used by daily power users.

- Experience designing or building REST APIs with a server-side language such as Python.

- Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.

- Familiarity with Next.js, Material UI, or a similar component library.

- Experience with rich-text editors, virtualized tables, real-time collaborative interfaces, cybersecurity, or insurtech.