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 Backend Engineer youll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable microservices and systems that get invoked through the entire customer journey. Youll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. We are detail oriented and value clean modular and high-performing code. Youll 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 APIs
• Write efficient modular and reusable libraries and abstractions
• Design and build internal tooling to improve development efficiency
• Communicate best practices to the team

Qualifications and Skills:

• 0-2 years of experience in JavaScript Java Python Rust.
• 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

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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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