Tech and Ethos

Our data warehouse supports critical workloads, making data correctness essential. We built a custom CLI tool to compare tables generated by code changes in PRs against their production counterparts, reducing unintended changes in production.

In this blog, we’ll explore how Ethos tackled this challenge by building a robust and scalable system that could manage these dynamic changes efficiently.

In this article, I hope to give you a peek behind the scenes into what day-to-day life is like working on one of these teams.

If you realize a high level of turnover in your analytics department, ensure you are not lowering the expectations of your analyst’s role and that you are raising the analytical mindset of everyone else.

Now that our team has had a grasp of bug escalation and triaging, our next phase involves working more closely with all of our corresponding teams to make our product better and more efficient. Using operational excellence leads to fewer bugs, more net positive launches, and ensuring that our stakeholder experience is smooth.

In pursuit of Ethos’ quest to protect the next one million families, we have worked to expand beyond our D2C and agent channels into the enterprise space. As part of this initiative, we collaborated with our partners to better understand their needs and how Ethos could best support them.

At Ethos, the design team is tasked with creating experiences that make life insurance simple, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Traditionally, life insurance has been a long, arduous process involving medical exams and weeks of underwriting. Ethos is changing this with a simplified underwriting process using predictive modeling to provide instant decisions

The interview is the first step in an insurance application. It is the process of collecting all the required data from the customer for us to underwrite the application. The interview not only serves as a digital replacement for a traditional paper application, but also enables us to ask the customer the right follow-up questions

We are proud to announce that we have opened up a new Ethos center of excellence office in Bengaluru, India in the last couple months.

User experience (UX) research drives product development by applying statistical and behavioral data. It incorporates quantitative and qualitative research methods to uncover user insights, which lead to concrete product changes.

t Ethos Life, there’s a testing framework built in-house called Isenguard, and we’d like to introduce you to it to exemplify the ethos (ha!) of our Test team.

I am Eve Denison, a Software Engineer here at Ethos, and I am so excited to talk to you about this transition.

At Ethos, we take velocity — our speed of execution — as seriously as the product we are building. We live up to our core value “Bias for Impact” each day, every day.

At Ethos, the people who land on our site in search of life insurance coverage come from wildly disparate backgrounds and knowledge levels. Some folks come to us extremely knowledgeable and ready to get same-day coverage

At Ethos, the primary objective of the Infrastructure team is to empower everyone in the company to build a world-class web product. This includes anything that impacts the company’s ability to build, test and deploy software safely

Underwriting is the process through which an individual or institution takes onfinancial risk for a fee. This risk most typically involves loans, insurance, or investments.

Consumer engineering at Ethos works to build this user experience from the moment a customer lands on the Ethos site to becoming a protected customer.

Our mission at Ethos is to distribute life insurance to millions of families easily and securely. Providing high-quality service to customers helps us accomplish that task.

Intellectual Rigor is a core value at Ethos. Making data informed decisions is one way we embody this value everyday. As a fast moving startup, we often have to make decisions in the face of uncertainty.

How are we innovating to make buying a life insurance policy a delightful experience for our users? The answer is in the core tenets of our product development that enables us to rethink the entire problem