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# Senior Software Engineer at Ethena

- **Company:** Ethena
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $180k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ethena/f85bcfd1-8d2c-4cf5-a6ab-1c8ddab14c65

## Job description

## Who we are

Hi there 👋 We’re Ethena, compliance training that customizes itself to you. Ethena combines top-rated training content with intelligent AI that builds and adapts training to reflect your company’s unique brand, roles, policies, and risks, so it feels like your team, whether that’s hard hats or virtual meetings. From auto-assigning courses based on HRIS data to transforming your policies into interactive training in minutes, Ethena helps People, Legal, and Compliance teams launch in days (not months) and cut learner seat time by up to 60% with adaptive learning paths. Ethena supports 1M+ learners across 2,000+ organizations, with a 93% learner approval rating and 96% customer renewal rate. Over the past several years, we’ve delivered consistent, durable growth, including 120%+ net dollar retention, 95%+ gross dollar retention, and strong enterprise expansion across industries. Ethena has become a go-to compliance partner for modern, global organizations.

Beyond training, Ethena unifies core compliance tools, Hotline & Case Management, Policy Bot, and Phishing Simulator, into a single platform, with built-in audit trails and compliance controls teams can trust.

Trusted by teams at companies like Genesco, Asana, Pinterest, and Synaptics, it’s a great time to join us.

## How we work

We’re a team that values diversity in all its forms and loves adding new perspectives. We ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and build with empathy, for customers and for each other. We care about craft, we love feedback, and we take ownership. We also embrace humor (yes, the puns are real), because doing serious work doesn’t have to feel so serious.

Our workforce is fully remote, and your personal working hours can be based on your own timezone. All team-wide meetings are scheduled to be inclusive of all North American time zones.

Who we're looking for

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team! This role will report to our Engineering Manager, and will be responsible for building great products quickly with the power of AI-driven development, without sacrificing quality. They will be a key contributor to Ethena’s growing product surface area and engineering operations.

Reports to Engineering Manager

## What you'll do

- Develop full stack software using Typescript, MySQL, React, and [Next.js](http://next.js).

- Direct AI coding agent(s) to assist you in building great things quickly, while maintaining a production quality codebase.

- Own features big and small from the idea phase through to production

- Collaborate with other engineers, designers, product managers, and members of the wider Ethena team.

What makes a great candidate

- A hunger for building great software faster than ever using AI coding agents, along with an understanding of the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

- A great knack for simple and elegant system design.

- Deep expertise building and maintaining great web applications, especially in a B2B context.

- Comfort with Javascript/Typescript, MySQL, React, Next.js, and AWS.

- Extensive experience shipping agile software sustainably (Git, CI/CD, database migrations, logging & monitoring, infrastructure considerations, etc).

- A self-starter who thrives in a hands-off management environment — someone who takes ownership of their work with a “roll up your sleeves mentality”, is comfortable with ambiguity, proactively identifies problems and solutions, and drives their work forward with minimal oversight.

- We’re a startup so we’re not just looking for someone to run a playbook. We want you to help build it.

- Passion for what we’re building here at Ethena and a strong alignment with our core values (which includes an impeccable sense of humor)

What’s going to be the hardest part

- Getting spun up quickly on our million-line codebase, best practices, and 6 years of product learnings.

At Ethena, we're committed to fair and equitable compensation. We carefully evaluate each candidate's skills and qualifications to provide our best possible offer upfront. Our no-negotiation policy ensures that our first offer is always our best offer, promoting pay equity throughout our organization.

Physical Demands This is sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing in a home office environment.

Location Ethena is a remote-first organization and is currently hiring candidates based in the United States or Canada. We are not currently offering employer visa sponsorship for this role.

AI Usage in Interviews: We’re big fans of AI and use it heavily in our day-to-day work. That said, to ensure fairness and accurate skill assessment, we do not allow the use of AI tools (including note takers, transcription tools, or recordings) during interviews. If you have questions or need accommodations, we’re happy to chat — just let us know.

## Benefits

The benefits offered for this position can be found here. We provide unlimited PTO.

How to Apply Applications for this position will be accepted via our job board. Excited about the opportunity, but worried you don’t meet all the requirements? Apply anyway, and give us both the chance to find out. We welcome you to read more about our approach to job descriptions by our Chief People Officer, Melanie Naranjo. Curious to know what it’s like to interview with us? Read more here.

Ethena is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that a successful organization is one that celebrates its employees for who they are, who they love, and the unique lens through which they experience the world. Ethena does not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or other legally protected status. We understand that our differences make us better. They empower us to learn from each other, lean on each other, and create a product and community that models the behavior we hope to see in others.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information are accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

## About Ethena

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ethena provides an AI-powered platform of compliance agents that automate disclosure reviews, policy gap analysis, and training, designed to replace boring, generic workplace compliance with engaging, customized content.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Roxanne Petraeus (CEO) and Anne Solmssen (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Compliance Software, Human Resources (HR) Technology, Legal Technology, Enterprise SaaS
- Target customers: B2B, mid-market to Enterprise (People, Legal, and Compliance teams)
- Mission or purpose statement: To make workplace training effective and engaging, moving away from boring, annual checkbox compliance towards data-driven, adaptive programs that build better workplaces. (Paraphrased: "Cringe-free content paired with best-in-class technology").

## Products & Services
- **Compliance Training Agent (Core Platform)**: An AI-powered SaaS platform that uses a company’s own policies, risk signals, and employee data to build and assign personalized training modules. Features include 200+ courses, gamified learning, test-out options, and instant AI translation into 100+ languages. It auto-enrolls employees via HRIS integrations (e.g., BambooHR, Rippling).
- **Disclosure Agent**: An AI agent that reviews Conflict of Interest, Gift, and Outside Employment submissions. It surfaces only the items that require human judgment for review, handling the rest automatically.
- **Policy Agent**: An AI agent that scans existing company policies to identify gaps, overlap, and areas needing better employee guidance. It drafts policy updates and routes them for approval.
- **3rd Party Risk Agent**: An AI agent that continuously screens vendors and partners for ethics and compliance exposures.
- **Ethics Hotline & Case Management**: An anonymous reporting channel for employees to speak up, with integrated case management providing a complete audit trail.
- **Phishing Simulator**: An automated tool to test employees’ susceptibility to phishing, using real risk data to assign targeted follow-up training.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Total funding of $50.4M suggests a strong valuation, likely in the hundreds of millions).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of USD $50.4M across 5 rounds.
- **Notable Investors**: GSV Ventures (led Seed rounds), Felicis (led Series A), and others. Trusted by enterprise clients including Zendesk, Pinterest, Genesco, and Synaptics.
- **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount grew 11.7% YoY to 64 people. Trusted by 3,000+ organizations and serving 5M+ learners. Achieving a 93% learner approval rating. Revenue is estimated at $1.8M, reflecting a transition from high-growth startup to a revenue-generating scale-up.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Compliance Agents**: Moves beyond traditional "training modules" to a system of AI agents (Disclosure, Policy, 3rd Party Risk) that automate the most tedious compliance tasks, creating a unique and defensible moat.
- **High Learner Engagement**: With a 93% approval rating and a 60% reduction in seat time, Ethena solves the universal problem of boring training, leading to higher compliance and lower employee frustration.
- **Data-Driven, Adaptive Content**: Training is built from real risk signals from disclosures and phishing tests, not a static calendar. The "Test-Out" feature allows learners to skip content they already know.
- **Unified Compliance Platform**: Unlike point solutions, Ethena provides a single platform for training, hotline/case management, policy management, and phishing simulation, creating a data flywheel and single source of truth.
- **Compliance & Legal-Centric AI**: Put "human in the loop" for all AI actions, building trust with risk-averse legal and compliance teams. They approve every judgment call, not the software.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening AI Agents**: Expanding the "Team of AI Compliance Agents" to automate more of the compliance lifecycle, moving from training creation to full policy and risk management (Disclosure, Policy, 3rd Party Risk agents).
- **Enterprise GTM**: Continuing to win and expand within enterprise accounts, leveraging integrations (HRIS, SCORM, SCIM, API) and the unified platform to displace point solutions.
- **Global Expansion**: Serving companies with global workforces through AI translation (100+ languages) and local law-compliant training content.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: A company built by a military vet and a software engineer who were bored by bad training. The culture emphasizes "Play to Win," autonomy, adaptability, and working in a remote-first environment. They have "Feedback Fridays" and company-wide learning workshops.
- **Remote-First**: Fully distributed workforce across the US and Canada, with headquarters in NYC.
- **Compensation Philosophy**: Transparent and generous. They pay "top-of-market" compensation (U.S. 75th percentile) to attract high performers. Salary ranges are listed on all job descriptions. Also offers generous equity.
- **Benefits & Perks**:
    - Unlimited PTO + a week-long end-of-year break.
    - 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents (birthing and non-birthing).
    - Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision (US & Canada).
    - 401(k) (US) with pre-tax and ROTH options.
    - Home office stipend ($500 USD/$750 CAD).
    - Co-working/In-person bonding expense ($100 USD per month).
    - Free access to all Ethena training courses.
- **Engineering Culture**: As a tech company with a strong AI focus, the engineering team builds a complex, data-driven SaaS platform. The product is highly relevant, solving a universal problem for all companies.

## Sources
1. [Ethena Official Website](https://www.goethena.com/)
2. [Ethena Careers Page](https://www.goethena.com/about-us/careers/)
3. [Ethena - About Us](https://www.goethena.com/about-us/)
4. [Ethena Compensation Philosophy](https://www.goethena.com/post/ethenas-compensation-philosophy/)
5. [Ethena LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethena)

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