About the role
Senior Backend Engineer, Telematics | Lemonade Careers Open Menu Renters Homeowners Car Pet Life Giveback Close Menu Renters Homeowners Car Pet Life Giveback All Positions > Tech Development > Senior Backend Engineer, Telematics 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. Awarded ‘best workplace’ Best Workplace and Best-Led Company by Inc. Magazine “World Changing” by Fast Company Recognized as a World Changing Idea by Fast Company Magazine Ranked #1 Home insurance in America Won best renters and homeowners insurance in America by US News, and others Best Pet Insurance in America Rated “Best Overall Pet Insurance” by Better Homes & Gardens Rated 4.9 ⭐ on the App Store Among the highest rated apps of all time What you’re applying for 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’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)