4 hours ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and delivery initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships.
- Define multi-service technical direction, API contracts, data models, migration paths, and rollout strategies.
- Translate product, security, and business requirements into designs while coordinating cross-functional dependencies.
- Build scalable backend services and improve testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability.
- Mentor engineers across teams and raise technical design and operating standards.
- Develop systems for centralized authentication, token validation, fine-grained access control, account identity, deduplication, matching, transfers, legacy decoupling, and event-driven APIs.
Requirements
- Proven staff-level track record guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs.
- Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations.
- Experience solving high-stakes problems where security, correctness, and performance are critical.
- Ability to write clear design documentation, align non-technical stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
- Ability to integrate AI tools into engineering workflows and critically evaluate their output in security-sensitive systems.
- Bonus experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, ReBAC, OpenFGA, Go, Python, Kafka, AWS, modern CI/CD stacks, security-sensitive or regulated environments, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Base salary ranges from $176,000 to $226,000 per year in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, and from $158,400 to $208,400 per year in other locations.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible PTO.
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
- Mental and physical health wellness programs, including Headspace and Lumino.
- Competitive compensation and advancement opportunities.
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About Coalition
Coalition builds cyber insurance and active risk management for businesses, combining coverage with cybersecurity tools, automated alerts, and MDR. It distributes policies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia through partner insurers and its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company, and provides its Coalition Control cyber risk platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.