Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
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About Ethos
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 multiweek process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! Weve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers ushering the industry into the modern age. Our fullstack 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 JayZ Kevin Durant Robert Downey Jr and others. This year we were named on CB Insights Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIns 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 Senior Backend Engineer youll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable platform services and systems. Youll work closely with other engineers to build and ship key features. We are detail oriented and value clean modular and highperforming code. Youll help architect and build our internal standards and frameworks. We love engineeringwide consistency in code and have huge ambitions on both client and server side.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design build and maintain complex backend systems
- Collaborate with other engineers PMs and nontechnical stakeholders to develop and ship features
- Design build and maintain our APIs
- Write efficient modular and reusable libraries and abstractions
- Find and solve performance issues
- Participate in code reviews
- Communicate best practices to the team
- Mentor junior engineers
Qualifications and Skills:
- 7 years of full time engineering experience
- Experience building complex architecture systems from the ground up experience with backend architectural patterns of large highscale 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.
- Engineering experience in TypeScript GoLang Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes React AWS
- Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
- Solid CS fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
- Understanding of security common attacks and defenses
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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.
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.
To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used please refer to ourCalifornia CandidatePrivacy Notice.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
