Lead Front End Engineer, Ethos Life

$120-201k

SQL
React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Django
Node.js
Figma
Yarn
Segment
Backbone
JIRA
Optimizely
Rails
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Notion
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

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Ethos Life

Life insurance provider

Job no longer available

Ethos Life

Life insurance provider

201-500 employees

FintechB2CInsuranceSaaS

Job no longer available

$120-201k

SQL
React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Django
Node.js
Figma
Yarn
Segment
Backbone
JIRA
Optimizely
Rails
Next
Notion
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

More information about location

201-500 employees

FintechB2CInsuranceSaaS

Company mission

Ethos Life's mission is to protect the next million families.

Role

Who you are

  • 5-8+ years of full time engineering experience
  • Expert in Javascript
  • Extensive experience with modern client-side JS libraries and tooling, such as React
  • Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues
  • Familiarity with server-side technology, such as Node.js, Rails, Django, etc
  • Exposure to architectural patterns of large, production environment web apps
  • Experience with client-side performance and optimization
  • Demonstrate design, UX sensibility, and attention to detail
  • Understanding of web security, common attacks and defenses
  • Knowledge of build systems configurations and setup, such as Webpack
  • Experience architecting web analytics and A/B testing systems
  • Solid CS fundamentals

What the job involves

  • As a senior front-end engineer, you will be responsible for the user interfaces and experiences that our customers interact with
  • You’ll work closely with our designers to build beautiful user interfaces for our web app on all screen formats
  • You will also be responsible for architecting and developing our core front-end infrastructure
  • Collaborate with our designers to iterate and implement on design concepts
  • Architect and build our client-side infrastructure
  • Work with full stack/backend engineers to ship features
  • Write efficient, modular, and reusable front-end libraries and abstractions
  • Find and solve performance issues
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Communicate best practices to the team
  • Mentor junior developers

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company want 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 publicised 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 $2 billion. However, the sector is being hit particularly hard by macroeconomic uncertainty and Ethos has conducted several rounds of layoffs through 2022 and early 2023. Now focused on its core product and revenue growth, it is poised to extend its market leading position.

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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 health benefits
  • Awesome medical, dental, and vision plans that start when you start
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • New parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement
  • Team training, volunteering opportunities, additional resources, and some amazing Employee Resource Groups: Black at Ethos, Parents, Pride & Shethos
  • Our healthcare plans offer coverage on family planning and fertility

Company values

  • Serve our Families
  • Intellectual Rigor
  • Bias for Impact
  • Speak Your Mind

Company HQ

Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX

Founders

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

(President)

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.

Diversity & Inclusion at Ethos Life

  • At Ethos, accessibility is core to our mission of protecting the next million families. Increasing access means diversity and inclusion are essential to the success of both our customers and our employees. At Ethos, we value every customer and each employee's unique voice, while ensuring they have an equal opportunity to be heard.

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