Backend Software Engineer

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers agents and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought sold and underwritten.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer youll work on building scalable and reliable backend services and systems. Youll collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to design implement and ship impactful features. We value clean modular and high-performing code and youll contribute to strengthening our engineering practices and standards.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain backend services and APIs
• Collaborate with engineers PMs and non-technical stakeholders to define and deliver features
• Ensure system reliability scalability and performance
• Find and solve performance issues
• Share and advocate for best engineering practices

Qualifications and Skills:

• 4 years of experience
• Experience with backend architectural patterns of large high-scale web applications
• Proficiency in designing clean maintainable APIs
• Experienced with software engineering best practices design patterns code reviews unit and integration testing etc.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)

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Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.

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