Senior Backend Engineer

About Lemonade

Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioural economics and driven by social good. Lemonade is a licensed insurance carrier offering renters, homeowners, life, and pet insurance in the United States, contents and liability insurance in Germany and the Netherlands, and renters insurance in France.

Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificial intelligence and behavioural economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures.

Position

We’re looking for a senior-level backend engineer to join our growing Engineering team in Amsterdam.

This role will require you to bring features to the finish line while collaborating closely with other developers, as well as with the Product, QA, Data, and Machine Learning teams—all with the goal of delivering a seamless, joyful experience for our customers.

In this role you’ll

• Help build our products using microservices written in Typescript (using NestJS) and Ruby on Rails 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
• Collaborate closely with the Product team, in a self-sufficient squad to achieve the squad’s OKRs
• Be the owner of your domain to ensure code quality, performance, and scalability of our products
• Coach and mentor other developers and help them elevate their skills

Your qualification

• 5+ years working as a backend engineer
• BSc in Computer Science or Mathematics (or equivalent experience)
• Passionate about technology
• Broad knowledge of modern backend frameworks, tools, and architecture
• Experience working on high scale, production-grade projects
• Past contributions to open source projects are a plus
• Ability to work in an office environment