Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

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. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

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
• Find and solve performance issues
• Participate in code reviews
• Communicate best practices to the team
• Mentor junior engineers

Requirements

• 7+ years of 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
• Experience with software engineering best practices including design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing
• Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
• Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses