Senior Backend Engineer, Telematics

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.

In this role you’ll

• Own 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.

What you’ll need

• 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

• Experience with and genuine enthusiasm for AI-first development

• Ability to collaborate and thrive in an office-based environment