À propos de ce poste Backend Software Engineer chez Ethos Life
About Ethos
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. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer, you’ll work on building scalable and reliable backend services and systems. You’ll collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to design, implement and ship impactful features. We value clean, modular and high-performing code, and you’ll contribute to strengthening our engineering practices and standards.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs
- Collaborate with engineers, PMs and non-technical stakeholders to define and deliver features
- Ensure system reliability, scalability and performance
- Find and solve performance issues
- Share and advocate for best engineering practices
Qualifications and Skills:
- 4+ years of experience
- Experience with backend architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
- Proficiency in designing clean, maintainable APIs
- Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing etc.
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
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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. 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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