Senior Backend Engineer

Ethos is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to the development of scalable platform services and systems. This role involves close collaboration with fellow engineers to deliver key features, with a strong emphasis on clean, modular, and high-performing code. The engineer will also play a role in architecting and building internal standards and frameworks.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain complex backend systems
• Collaborate with other engineers, PMs and non-technical stakeholders to develop and ship features
• Design, build, and maintain our API’s
• Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
• Find and solve performance issues
• Participate in code reviews
• Communicate best practices to the team
• Mentor junior engineers

Requirements:

• 7+ years of full time engineering experience
• Experience building complex architecture systems from the ground up, experience with backend 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.
• Engineering experience in TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, AWS
• Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
• Solid CS fundamentals – including data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses

Ethos offers: