Full Stack Software Engineer

About the business

Etude operates in insurance, commercial real estate, and industrials. Our insurance business covers more than 5,000 properties with billions of dollars in insured value. Our real estate business owns approximately $1B of commercial property alongside the Kinder Family Office. Our industrial business is developing a multibillion-dollar, 40-acre steelworks to secure the domestic supply chain for electrical infrastructure.

About the team

We are roughly a 100-person team. We hire high-agency people and give them autonomy, responsibility, and diverse problems to work on. We operate with the intensity of a small company where every person's work is visible and believe responsiveness is a form of respect. If you're looking for a place to sharpen your craft alongside people who take their work seriously, you'll fit right in.

Etude is looking for a driven Full Stack Engineer. In this role, you’ll work across the entire stack building, testing, and shipping features. You'll collaborate closely with company leadership, playing a key role in solving high-impact technical challenges and shaping the future of our platform.

About The Role

To drive our mission forward, this role will:

• Contribute across the stack — Write clean, maintainable code across our platform with a focus on reliability, performance, and simplicity

• Build customer-facing features — Collaborate with Product and Design to create intuitive, user-first functionality

• Tackle technical challenges — Help debug issues, improve code quality, and strengthen system reliability

• Focus on growth and learning — Take ownership of your work while being open to feedback and opportunities to grow as an engineer

• Work collaboratively — Participate in code reviews, planning sessions, and team discussions to build shared understanding and alignment

• Embrace iteration and improvement — Contribute ideas that help us move faster, build smarter, and work better as a team

About You

You're a curious and resourceful builder who enjoys solving real-world problems through code. You’re eager to grow your technical skills, collaborate with others, and contribute to a fast-paced, mission-driven team.

Your experience:

• 2+ years of experience in full-stack software development with exposure to shipping real-world applications

• Background in CS/EE, a coding bootcamp, or equivalent hands-on experience building production systems

• Comfortable with Frontend (TypeScript, JavaScript, React), Backend (Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs), and Infrastructure (relational databases, Git, AWS) technologies

• Willingness to learn and adopt best-in-class tools like Claude Code, Claude.ai, Linear, and other fast-moving AI-powered developer tools

• Solid communication skills and a collaborative mindset—willing to ask questions, give input, and support your teammates

• DevOps experience is a bonus, especially if you’re interested in understanding how code runs in production

• Excited to work in-person or hybrid from our beautiful downtown Austin office

If you don't have all the qualifications listed, don't worry! We understand everyone's career path is unique and still encourage you to apply if you feel this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

Employment at Etude is contingent upon a satisfactory verification of a general and criminal background check.