Senior Fullstack Engineer
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Ethos Life's standard text
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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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
CSS · Django · HTML · Ruby · Ruby on Rails · Webpack
Rare in Ethos Life's other 35 open postings.
Standard for full stack roles
JavaScript · PostgreSQL · Python · React · SQL
Common in full stack postings at any company.
50% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Ethos Life's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Ethos Life's other open postings on this site.
The team: Software Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 12 open in Software Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in September: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (8 of 12), JavaScript (7 of 12), CI/CD (5 of 12), Test Automation (5 of 12), SQL (4 of 12), AWS (3 of 12), CSS (3 of 12)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Salesforce Developer posted Oct 13
- Senior Technical Program Manager posted Oct 6
- Technical Program Manager posted Sep 18
- Senior Data Engineer posted Sep 17
- Data Engineer posted Sep 17
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Aug 25
- Software Engineer posted Jul 17
- Software Engineer, Test posted Apr 25
- Senior Software Engineer, Test posted Apr 9
- Staff Technical Program Manager posted Mar 24
- Full Stack Engineer posted Jan 6
From the team and dates on Ethos Life's own job board.
Salary context
14 other open postings titled Senior Fullstack Engineer state a salary: median USD 175,000 to USD 220,000 a year.
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