Join Ethos Life as a Software Engineer to build scalable platform services in a hybrid work environment.
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Joblaze summary
In the role of Software Engineer at Ethos Life, the individual will focus on developing scalable platform services and systems while collaborating with a team to deliver key features. Proficiency in full stack development using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, or Python is essential, along with a solid understanding of software engineering best practices. This position is ideal for mid-level engineers with experience in building complex architectures and a knack for optimizing performance. Ethos Life is a dynamic company aiming to innovate the life insurance sector through technology.
Quick facts
- Is the Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend Leaning) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Ethos Life expects some on-site time in San Francisco, California, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Ethos Life lists $96,000–$169,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- 2–5 years of relevant experience for this Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend Leaning) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Ethos Life is hiring for this position in San Francisco, California, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CSS, HTML, Iterable, JavaScript, Node, Optimizely.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Ethos Life targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend Leaning) role at Ethos Life.
From the original posting
About Ethos
About the Role
As a frontend leaning Full-Stack 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. You are preferably located in San Francisco or willing to relocate. This is a hybrid role with at least 2 days in office and 3 days remote each week.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain complex fullstack 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
- Write engineering requirements documents
Qualifications and Skills:
- 2-5 years of relevant experience in a software engineering role
- Full stack engineering experience in Javascript, Typescript, Node or Python
- 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
- Experience shipping features behind an A/B testing or feature flag platform, such as Optimizely
- 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
- Experience building complex architecture systems from the ground up, experience with backend architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
- Expert at leveraging agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development workflows and improve engineering productivity
- Ability to design clean APIs and understanding of performance issues
- 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
- 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 with integrated logging and monitoring technologies
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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $96,000 - $169,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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.
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