Senior Backend Engineer, Telematics

Amsterdam, Netherlands | Tech Development | Full-time

Not your everyday company

Lemonade completely reinvented how insurance works. As a customer-centric tech company, we created an insurance experience that is smart, instant, and delightful.

At Lemonade, you'll be working with a group of like-minded makers, who get a kick out of moving fast and delivering great products. We surround ourselves with some of the smartest, most motivated, creative people who are filled with positive energy and good karma.

Unlike most publicly traded companies, we're nimble and efficient. We take pride in the fact that we still think and operate like a startup. We don't care much about titles and hierarchy and instead focus on innovation, bold moves, and challenging the status quo.

We're built as a lean, data-driven organization that relies on a common understating of objectives and goals to provide teams with autonomy and ownership. We don't like spending our days in meetings and we skip committees altogether. At Lemonade, there's no such thing as going over someone's head. We have zero tolerance for bureaucracy, office politics, and lean-back personalities.

As a Public Benefit Corporation and a certified B-Corp, we deliver environmental and social impact using our products and tech. Through our Giveback program, we partner with organizations such as the ACLU, New Story, The Humane Society, Malala Fund, American Red Cross, 360.org, charity: water, and dozens of others, and have donated millions towards reforestation, education, animal rights, LGBTQ+ causes, access to water, and more.

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Among the highest rated apps of all time

What you're applying for

We're looking for a senior-level backend engineer to join our Telematics team.

You'll play a key role in extending and optimizing the telematics platform for Lemonade Car Insurance, helping design and build our data pipelines and services. You'll help build telematics data from different sensors and sources available for various insurance applications, such as pricing, underwriting, fraud detection and crash analysis

In this role you'll:

• Have end-to-end ownership over our sensor-agnostic Car telematics platform, to ensure code quality, performance, and scalability of the product
• Design and extend our sensor-agnostic Car telematics pipelines for processing data from different sources (mobile phones, OBD dongles, connected cars)
• Collaborate with various teams within the organization to ensure optimal use of the data in critical areas such as pricing fairness, fraud prevention, and risk mitigation
• Integrate with various third-party data and fulfillment vendors to enable a delightful and streamlined experience for our customers
• Model and expose the telematics data for diverse applications, from real-time insights to data science and analytics
• Help build our products using microservices written in Typescript (using NestJS) running over Kubernetes
• Leverage our in-house autonomous tools to manage all development flow, from setting up our development environment to creating git branches and deploying services to production
• Coach and mentor other developers and help them elevate their skills

What you'll need

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer
• BSc in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Broad knowledge of modern backend frameworks, tools, and architecture
• Hands-on experience working with high-scale, production-grade asynchronous systems (Kafka / SQS etc.)
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other public cloud providers
• Experience with telematic or other streaming data systems is a major advantage, as are past contributions to open source projects
• Ability to work in an office environment a minimum of 3 days a week
• Enthusiasm about learning and adapting to the exciting world of AI - a commitment to exploring this field is a fundamental part of our culture

Things to know...

Lemonade is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity. We never discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you require reasonable accommodations due to religious beliefs, pregnancy, or disabilities, let us know at any time.