Senior Backend Engineer

3 Months ago • 7 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Ethos, you will be responsible for building scalable platform services and systems. You'll collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to develop and ship key features. Your responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining complex backend systems and APIs, writing efficient code, and solving performance issues. You will also participate in code reviews, communicate best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of engineering experience.
  • Experience building complex architecture systems.
  • Ability to design clean APIs and understand performance issues.
  • Experience with software engineering best practices.
  • Engineering experience in TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, AWS
  • Ability to communicate technical specifications.
  • Solid CS fundamentals - including data structures and algorithms.
  • Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses.

Job Details

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 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 Senior Backend Engineer, you'll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable platform services and systems. You’ll work closely with 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:

  • Design, build and maintain complex backend systems
  • Collaborate with other engineers, PMs and non-technical stakeholders to develop and ship features
  • Design, build, and maintain our API’s
  • 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, 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.
  • 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

#LI-ONSITE

#LI-DG1

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.

To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used, please refer to our California Candidate Privacy Notice.

Similar Jobs

HP - Financial Analyst 1

HP

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Week ago
bytedance - Hardware Product Manager AI - (VR/AR)- PICO

bytedance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Fox Factory - Purchasing Assistant

Fox Factory

Trussville, Alabama, United States (On-Site)
1 Year ago
Ion - Data Engineer, Italy

Ion

Italy (Hybrid)
9 Months ago
Rippling - Benefits Operations Analyst, Carrier Connections

Rippling

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Week ago
ElevenLabs - Back-End Engineer

ElevenLabs

Bulgaria (Remote)
4 Months ago
Alation - Software Engineer III - Backend

Alation

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
FlockSafety - Staff Backend Engineer - Rails

FlockSafety

United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
bytedance - Backend Software Engineer - Dubai

bytedance

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Haptic  - Senior Backend Engineer

Haptic

Paris, Île-de-France, France (Remote)
7 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Penn Interactive - Regional Director of Player Development

Penn Interactive

Columbus, Ohio, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
Nexon - Manager, CRM

Nexon

El Segundo, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
binance - Binance Accelerator Program - Futures Business Development

binance

Asia, Lima Region, Peru (Remote)
6 Months ago
bytedance - Cloud Technical Support

bytedance

Singapore (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Sony Music Career - Senior Manager, Label Management

Sony Music Career

India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
EvenUp - Customer Onboarding Specialist, Enterprise

EvenUp

Chicago, Illinois, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
VGW - Senior Software Engineer

VGW

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Diligent Corporation - Associate Product Manager

Diligent Corporation

Budapest, Hungary (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Make - Senior Data Scientist

Make

Prague, Czechia (On-Site)
2 Months ago
London stock Exchange - Technical Team Lead

London stock Exchange

New York, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Illumina - Sr Digital Programs Specialist

Illumina

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Nagarro - Staff Consultant ,SAP Basis

Nagarro

India (Remote)
9 Months ago
Capgemini - Risk and Finance Data Analyst-Python (AWS OR ADB)

Capgemini

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
PlaySimple - Associate UX Designer

PlaySimple

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
Capgemini - Azure Integration

Capgemini

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Nagarro - Engineer, QA Manual

Nagarro

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Accenture - Creative Production Specialist

Accenture

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Autodesk - Principal Software Engineer

Autodesk

Pune, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
London stock Exchange - Lead Support Engineer

London stock Exchange

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Paytm - Product Management - Product Manager (AI) - Devices Product

Paytm

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Backend Development Jobs

Pocket Worlds - Senior Backend Engineer

Pocket Worlds

United States (Remote)
4 Months ago
rivos - Custom CAD Backend Engineer

rivos

Santa Clara, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Years ago
bytedance - Senior Backend Software Engineer - Global E-Commerce Supply Chain

bytedance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Match Group - Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Playtech - Software Developer – Backend Content

Playtech

Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine (On-Site)
5 Months ago
MURKA - PHP Developer

MURKA

(Remote)
3 Months ago
Match Group - Senior Backend Software Engineer (Market Expansion)

Match Group

Seoul, South Korea (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
DREST - Senior Backend Engineer

DREST

United Kingdom (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
storytq - Lead Backend Software Engineer - UK

storytq

United Kingdom (Remote)
1 Week ago
entrata - Backend Developer

entrata

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (Hybrid)
9 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get term life insurance. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally 15-week process into a modern digital experience for our users. Ethos has raised over $400 million from Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Accel, and Google Ventures (GV). We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to join us in our mission to protect the next million families!

San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)

United States (Remote)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

United States (Remote)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Ethos Life

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug