Alexandra Folks, UX Researcher & Rachel Chen, Senior UX Researcher What is UX research? 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. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are valuable. Quantitative methods such…

Alan Lee, Software Engineer At 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. FITTING INTO OUR CORE PRINCIPLES We know that testing increases the “good” at the expense of “cheap” and…

Eve Denison, Software Engineer “How on earth did you transition from being a psychotherapist to a software engineer?” This is a question I get often and I love telling people about this process! I am Eve Denison, a Software Engineer here at Ethos, and I am so excited to talk…

Harneet Kalra, Director of Program Management Enduring and successful startups are differentiated by many factors: a product solving a real problem, a delightful product experience, a stellar leadership team, and much more. At Ethos, on top of all these things, we are differentiated by our velocity. Velocity, or speed of…

Lani Oshima, Senior Product Manager 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. Others don’t yet know the basics of whole life…

Douglas Land, Director of Reliability Engineering 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 and reliably, such as the choice of…

Ankur Mishra, Director of Engineering, Underwriting Engine Thank you for your interest in learning about the Underwriting Engine at Ethos. Before we delve any further, let’s answer the fundamental question: “What is Underwriting?” “Underwriting is the process through which an individual or institution takes on financial risk for a fee. This risk most…

Andrew Bright, Engineering Manager, Growth For someone purchasing life insurance, the process can be daunting: If you were to apply for life insurance the traditional way, you would talk to an insurance agent who interviews the customer and writes their answers down on a physical form which is then mailed…

Jaimin Vaidya, Test Engineering Architect What is the purpose of the testing, and why do we conduct it? Testing reduces risk, the chance that the company loses customers, and, eventually, money. It also boosts our confidence to say, “Yes, the code is ready to deploy to production and serve customers.” …