Senior Backend Engineer

2 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

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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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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!

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