Technology

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Ethos LifeBengaluru🇮🇳India

Why this role stands out

At Ethos Life, you'll have a significant impact on revolutionizing the life insurance industry by building key features across the entire customer journey, with opportunities to architect internal standards and frameworks. This hybrid role is perfect for experienced, detail-oriented full-stack engineers who excel in Javascript and enjoy collaborating to ship high-performing, clean code. Join a mission-driven technology company and contribute to a seamless, accessible experience for families.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationBengaluru, India

DjangoRubySQLCSSHTMLJavaScriptPostgreSQLPythonRailsReactWebpack

Job description

About Ethos

Ethos (Nasdaq: $LIFE) 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 Senior Full stack engineer, you'll work across the stack and be responsible for the entire customer journey from where we store data to our server application logic, to our front end UI. You’ll work closely with our 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:

Collaborate with other engineers and designers to develop and ship features
Design, build, and maintain our API’s
Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
Design and build internal tooling to improve development efficiency
Find and solve performance issues
Participate in code reviews
Communicate best practices to the team
Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications and Skills:

8+ years of full time engineering experience
Expert in Javascript
Full stack engineering experience in Javascript, Python/Django, or Ruby/Rails
Expert in SQL, database design, and familiarity with PostgreSQL
Experience with front and back end 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
Command over front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, React
Solid CS fundamentals – including data structures and algorithms
Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses
Knowledge of build systems configurations and setup - such as Webpack
Experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, and deploying apps into a high-scale environment

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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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We will never ask for payment, banking details, or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent us from a different email address, please treat it as fraudulent.