We’re reimagining car insurance—and we’re looking for a senior backend engineer to help lead the charge. As a part of our Telematics team, you’ll take a leading role in shaping the platform behind Lemonade Car. You'll design and build systems that turn raw sensor data into real-time insights, smarter pricing, and safer driving experiences, making an immediate, real-world impact.
We believe three things matter for every role at Lemonade: drive to push through challenges, efficiency that keeps standards high while moving fast, and adaptability that lets you pivot with data and AI insights. These aren't buzzwords, they're how we actually work.
Our AI-first approach isn't just a tagline either. We're building the future of insurance with AI at the center, and we need people who are genuinely excited to learn and grow alongside these tools.
In this role you’llOwn platform end to end: Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our sensor-agnostic telematics platform, with focus on scalability, performance, and quality.
Build big: Design, implement and optimize our telematics data pipelines processing vast volumes of customer data from various sources such as mobile phones, plug-in tracking devices, or connected cars.
Solve hard problems: Partner with teams across the company to tackle complex challenges like pricing fairness, fraud prevention, and risk mitigation.
Integrate at scale: Work with car makers (OEMs), driving data vendors and fulfillment providers to deliver a seamless, delightful experience to our customers.
Unlock the data: Model and expose telematics data for a wide range of use cases – from real-time decision making to data science and analytics.
Ship modern infrastructure: Build microservices in TypeScript (NestJS), running on Kubernetes, in a cloud-native environment.
Move fast with great tooling: Use our in-house DevX and AI tools to streamline everything from design to development, deploying, and running services in production.
Lead by example: Mentor and coach fellow engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence across the company.
7+ years of backend engineering experience, building production systems at scale.
BSc in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
Deep knowledge of modern backend frameworks, tools, and architecture
Proven experience building high-throughput, real-time data streaming systems, using Kafka, SQS, or similar technologies
Experience with AWS or other public cloud providers
Familiarity with data engineering and orchestration tools (Athena, Kinesis, Glue, Airflow)
Bonus points for experience in telematics, IoT, or sensor-driven platforms, as well as meaningful contributions to open-source projects
Ready to work in an office environment most days of the week
Skills Required
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience building production systems at scale
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Deep knowledge of modern backend frameworks, tools, and architecture
- Build microservices in TypeScript (NestJS)
- Run services on Kubernetes in a cloud-native environment
- Proven experience building high-throughput, real-time data streaming systems (Kafka, SQS, or similar)
- Experience with AWS or other public cloud providers
- Familiarity with data engineering and orchestration tools (Athena, Kinesis, Glue, Airflow)
- Ready to work in an office environment most days of the week
- Experience in telematics, IoT, or sensor-driven platforms
- Meaningful contributions to open-source projects
Lemonade Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lemonade and has not been reviewed or approved by Lemonade.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is delivered via mainstream Cigna medical options, with multiple plan types and supplemental health protections. This signals broad networks and a robust core healthcare offering.
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Retirement Support — A company 401(k) match is part of the package and is positioned alongside other core financial benefits. This provides structured retirement savings support as a standard element of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is presented as generous, alongside paid sick time and strong parental leave with a return-to-work program. These time-off provisions extend beyond the basics and support work-life needs.
Lemonade Insights
What We Do
Our mission is simple: Create the world’s most loved insurance through technology and social impact. As a certified Public Benefit Corporation and B-Corp, Lemonade is constantly challenging how the insurance industry does business. We’re creating an experience that is fast, affordable, and hassle-free across renters, homeowners, pet, life and car insurance. And through our annual Giveback program, in which leftover premiums are donated to charities our customers choose, we’ve donated nearly $5 million to a variety of organizations in need.
Why Work With Us
We’ve set out to make insurance loveable, fast, simple, and socially impactful - words that aren’t often associated with this industry. We’re a Certified B-corp, the only US insurance company to never invest in polluting industries, and our annual Giveback program has donated nearly $5 million globally to nonprofits in need.
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