Staff 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

• Own and drive the technical roadmap for key platform areas
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend systems and distributed services
• Make high-leverage architecture decisions to improve scalability, reliability, and security
• Lead multi-team initiatives from concept to launch, including planning and risk management
• Architect and evolve API frameworks and platform capabilities
• Establish engineering best practices including testing, observability, and code quality
• Mentor junior, mid-level, and senior engineers

Requirements

• 10+ years of full-time engineering experience in high-scale environments
• Experience designing and delivering backend architectures from the ground up
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, or AWS
• Familiarity with LLM implementations and practical integration patterns
• Experience establishing and driving team KPIs
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience owning and scaling a platform used by multiple product teams
• Experience driving architecture modernization such as service decomposition
• Experience with SRE practices, observability, and incident response