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Senior Backend Engineer, Core Platform | 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, Core Platform Senior Backend Engineer, Core Platform 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 looking for a senior-level backend engineer to join our growing Engineering team in Amsterdam. In this role, you’ll be responsible for bringing features to the finish line while collaborating closely with other developers, as well as with stakeholders on the Product, QA, Data, and Machine Learning teams, all with the goal of delivering seamless, delightful experiences for our customers. 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: Help build our products using microservices written in Typescript (using NestJS) and Ruby on Rails running over Kubernetes Work on building a new solution for financial reports 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 What you’ll need: 7+ years working as a backend engineer Experience in billing and finance systems, strong DBs knowledge (major advantage) BSc in Computer Science or Mathematics (or equivalent experience) Experience working on high scale, production-grade projects Past contributions to open-source projects are a plus Ready to work in an office environment most days of the week At Lemonade, we welcome candidates who are enthusiastic about learning and adapting to the exciting world of AI, as a commitment to ongoing growth in this field is a fundamental part of our culture Things to know… Lemonade is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity. 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