Frontend Engineer
Description For Frontend Engineer
Ethos Life is revolutionizing the life insurance industry by leveraging deep technology and data science to streamline the traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience that takes minutes. As a Frontend Engineer, you'll be instrumental in building beautiful user interfaces for their web app across all screen formats using modern tools like React, ES6, and SASS. The role offers an opportunity to work with a rapidly scaling company backed by prestigious investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, and Google Ventures. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to create efficient, modular frontend solutions while ensuring optimal performance and cross-browser compatibility. The position requires expertise in JavaScript and modern frontend technologies, along with a strong understanding of web security and analytics. Ethos has issued billions in coverage monthly and is committed to protecting the next million families through their innovative platform. The company offers a diverse, inclusive workplace and has been recognized on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco.
Responsibilities For Frontend Engineer
- Collaborate with designers to iterate and implement design concepts
- Work with full stack/backend engineers to ship features and create experiments
- 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
Requirements For Frontend Engineer
- 3-5+ years of full time engineering experience
- Expert in Javascript
- Extensive experience with modern client-side JS libraries and tooling such as React
- Strong understanding of HTML and CSS
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues
- Familiarity with server-side technology such as Node.js, Rails, Django, etc.
- Experience with client-side performance and optimization
- Solid CS fundamentals
- Understanding of web security, common attacks and defenses
- Knowledge of build systems configurations and setup - such as Webpack
- Experience architecting web analytics, conversion analytics, and A/B testing systems
- Experience building and maintaining open source repositories
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Segment.js
