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Senior Engineering Manager (Frontend - SecApps)

Coalition

Coalition

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Canada
Posted on Jun 7, 2024

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 broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

The SecApps Frontend team is responsible for building the security product to secure 80k+ enterprise customers and allow them to mitigate security risks. In addition, we are expanding the product beyond insurance to act as its own security product.

This is a key investment for Coalition right now as there is a significant push to turn this product into a revenue stream of its own. This is evident by a recent email from the CEO to the whole company stating that this is an investment area we want to focus on.

The manager of the frontend team will work heavily with the backend and integrations teams to build the product, as well as with PMs, Design and other stakeholders to make sure we’re addressing customers needs.

Responsibilities

  • Build the next gen product to protect enterprise insurance and security customers.
  • Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully deliver product features on time while designing for quality and scalability
  • Provide technical expertise and software engineering guidance to automate processes and improve team efficiency
  • Provide management and mentorship to engineers in order to seek out identification of skill gaps and growth needs
  • Balance managing technical debt with new feature development and business priorities
  • Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment
  • Collaborate with Product, Design and Business staff to balance resources and project schedules
  • Maintain transparent communication across all levels of the organization
  • Actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc

Skills and Qualifications

  • 7+ years overall software engineering experience with 3+ years experience managing a team of at least 5 people
  • Effective in leading and mentoring staff with various technical backgrounds and expertise
  • Strong collaborator, with a track record of understanding customer/stakeholder needs and building to solve them
  • Understanding of software development processes with the experience to apply the best type of engineering methodology to fit a situation or team dynamic
  • Experience building highly interactive modern web applications
  • Proven track record of successfully delivering software and managing projects across multiple teams
  • Sufficient level of technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
  • Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities
  • Ability to have meticulous attention to requirements while also maintaining awareness of the overall business objectives
  • Experience building API-first CRUD applications using Python, React, SQL
  • Expert knowledge of at least one area of computer science/engineering
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills at all levels

Bonus Points

  • Prior experience with insurance or security technologies
  • In-depth knowledge of React
  • Experience working in the InfoSec, Tech and Cybersecurity markets
  • Experience working with data at scale, data science/analytics, and data collection techniques
  • Familiar with building service oriented architectures and distributed systems

Why Coalition?

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion. We are proud to have been named among Inc.’s Best Workplaces in 2021 and 2023 and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Privacy Notice

Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy. We want you to understand what personal information we collect and how we use it. We also want you to understand your options regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of such information and your ability to access and correct such information. As the leading provider of active insurance, Coalition is required to adhere to certain local regulations, including U.S. federal and state laws that protect your information and our use and disclosure of it.

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Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all individuals seeking employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. We also prohibit harassment or discrimination of applicants based on the above-protected categories. This policy covers all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, demotion, and termination of employment.

Accommodations

Coalition complies with US federal and state disability laws. Our policy is to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees unless the accommodation imposes an undue hardship. Contact us by emailing candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com if you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participating in the employee selection process.

We consider qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.