Senior Engineering Manager

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 hands-on Engineering Manager, you’ll oversee 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:

• 4+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth engineering organizations


• 6+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor


• Play the role of technical SME for the pod by diving into the weeds of architecture and implementation 


• Collaborate closely with product team to develop the tech roadmap


• Recruit, hire, grow, and retain A+ engineering talent


• Demonstrated track record of shipping complex products in a fast-paced environment


• Deep understanding of your pod's OKRs, metrics and KPIs to contribute to the overall strategy and vision. 

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience designing and implementing complex backend systems


• Build up technical details of existing systems


• Back end architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications experience


• Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc.


• Provide meaningful feedback to your teammates to enable their work and growth


• Ability to adjust the process of the team to maximize productivity


• Assess risk and proactively deliver a plan and timeline for the entire pod and their team members


• Write design reviews, architecture and help mentor the team on their design reviews

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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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