Senior Backend Engineer

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes We've issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer, you'll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable microservices and systems that get invoked through the entire customer journey. You'll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. We are detail oriented and value clean, modular, and high-performing code. You'll help architect and build our internal standards and frameworks. We love engineering-wide consistency in code and have huge ambitions on both client and server side.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engineers and designers to develop and ship features
• Design, build, and maintain our API's
• Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
• Design and build internal tooling to improve development efficiency
• Find and solve performance issues
• Participate in code reviews
• Communicate best practices to the team
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications and Skills:

• 4+ years of full time engineering experience
• Expert in Javascript
• Engineering experience in TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, AWS
• Experience with back end architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Ability to design clean APIs and understanding of performance issues
• Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc.
• Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
• Solid CS fundamentals – including data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses
• Knowledge of build systems configurations and setup - such as Webpack
• Experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, and deploying apps into a high-scale environment

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

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