Software Engineer, Ethos Life
$96-169k
Life insurance provider
Open for applications
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$96-169k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ 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
- Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc
- Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
- Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses
- Ability to succinctly communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
- Command over front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS and React
- Familiar with optimizing Core Web Vitals and loading speed performance
- Knowledge of mobile first responsive styling methodologies
- Experience working with third-party lifecycle communication infrastructure, including platforms like Iterable, Twilio, Salesforce, and Regal, to orchestrate multi-channel customer engagement
- Solid CS fundamentals – including data structures and algorithms
- Knowledge of build systems configurations and setup - such as Webpack
- Experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, and deploying apps into a high-scale environment with integrated logging and monitoring technologies
- Expert at leveraging agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development workflows and improve engineering productivity
- Full stack engineering experience in Javascript, Typescript, Node or Python
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Software 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
- 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
Our take
Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company wants to add openness to the process; losing a loved one is hard enough before one even considers financial implications, particularly with the loss of a primary earner.
Ethos uses predictive technology to rapidly quote life insurance rates and verify an applicant’s medical information. This expedited process allows most users to secure life cover on the same day they apply, a process which normally takes a number of weeks. The company works with some of the biggest providers in the industry, including Legal & General America, AAA Life and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Ethos has been one of the more heavily publicized of the recent wave of insurtech companies, with investors such as Google as well as celebrities Will Smith and Jay Z, taking its valuation to over $2B and putting it in a great spot for future growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
72% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES D
May 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $406.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits packages: Awesome medical dental, vision and as applicable insurance coverage and retirement plans (in the US we offer a 401(k) plan).
- Company Equity: We want you to feel and act like an owner.
- Rest, relax & recharge: We encourage our employees to take time off, in addition to our fully paid global company holiday schedule. When you need time away from work, we have paid and flex time options based on your role and location, and additional paid leave programs.
- Generous leave programs: As well as offering a wide array of leave programs, new parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement. Our healthcare plans offer coverage on family planning and fertility.
Company HQ
Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX
Leadership
Peter Colis
(Co-Founder & CEO)After an MBA at Stanford, Peter co-founded Ovid Corp in 2014, where he worked as CEO for 4 years before co-founding Ethos in 2016. He has worked as CEO since, alongside serving as a Sequoia Capital Scout.
Lingke Wang
(Co-Founder)After working as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley Lingke gained an MBA from Stanford. He then co-founded Ovid Corp. an insurance company before Ethos.
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