Frontend Engineer, Underwriting

About the role

As a Frontend 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.

Compensation

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $128,500/year up to $160,600/year.

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $115,600/year up to $144,540/year.

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. Your Recruiter can share more on the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition?

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.

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