Software Engineer III

Job Description

As a Software Engineer III in the Data Platform Services Team, you’ll design and build core services that power our analytics platform: data contracts, the Data Product Catalog, data quality and observability frameworks, and data delivery/subscription systems. Analytics drives everything at Lytx—from collision prevention to driver coaching across 700,000 vehicles worldwide. You’ll help develop platform capabilities that enable domain teams to confidently deliver analytics-powered safety features at scale with low-latency delivery and enterprise-grade governance. If you want to contribute to the platform that makes analytics-driven safety possible, this role is for you.

You’ll Get To:

• Design and implement platform services — Contribute to the Registry, Catalog, Data Quality/Observability, and Delivery services that enable hundreds of data products across the organization.
• Develop robust APIs and libraries — Build contract-first APIs with strong versioning and compatibility guarantees to simplify integration for domain teams.
• Ensure production reliability — Implement observability (metrics, logs, traces) and help define and meet SLOs for critical services.
• Collaborate with domain teams — Support adoption of data contracts, onboarding to the catalog, and integration with quality frameworks.
• Contribute to engineering standards — Write clean, maintainable code, participate in meaningful code reviews, and help improve team practices.
• Optimize performance at scale — Profile and tune systems for multi-tenant workloads, balancing latency and cost efficiency.
• Participate in platform evolution — Contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and help implement patterns that improve scalability and reliability.
• Stay current with technology — Explore emerging tools and frameworks in the data platform space and share insights with the team.

What You’ll Need:

• B.E/B Tech in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• Enterprise software engineer experience with 5+ years’ building scalable back-end services and web applications
• Experience designing and developing microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design practices and enterprise patterns
• Expert level knowledge C#, .NetCore
• Design and development experience with microservices, RESTful APIs
• Expertise working with databases like PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, MS SQL
• Solid understanding of cloud-native development, preferably on AWS (certifications are a plus)
• Experience working with message-based technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Ability to collaborate across numerous teams and create new strategies to achieve results.
• Expertise with building testable systems using Unit Testing and TDD methodologies
• Agile software development experience
• Passion for collaboration and mentoring junior developers

Innovation Lives Here

You go all in no matter what you do, and so do we. At Lytx, we’re powered by cutting-edge technology and Happy People. You want your work to make a positive impact in the world, and that’s what we do. Join our diverse team of hungry, humble and capable people united to make a difference.

Together, we help save lives on our roadways.

Find out how good it feels to be a part of an inclusive, collaborative team. We’re committed to delivering an environment where everyone feels valued, included and supported to do their best work and share their voices.

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. We’re committed to attracting, retaining and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. EOE/M/F/Disabled/Vet.