Senior Backend Engineer - Platform

Lemonade
Tel Aviv
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Empathy","Communication","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform team in Tel Aviv, building core platform services and APIs for distributed microservices, shaping platform standards, ensuring service stability, and driving developer efficiency. You’ll work with AWS infrastructure and modern tooling (Kafka, RabbitMQ, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Pulumi) to support multiple development teams and scale across the organization.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Lemonade
Lemonade
10 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Platform

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 22 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform team in Tel Aviv, building core platform services and APIs for distributed microservices, shaping platform standards, ensuring service stability, and driving developer efficiency. You’ll work with AWS infrastructure and modern tooling (Kafka, RabbitMQ, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Pulumi) to support multiple development teams and scale across the organization.
Location: Tel Aviv
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build core platform services that support all Lemonade development teams across web, mobile, and backend systems.
  • •Design and maintain robust APIs for distributed microservices architecture using TypeScript, with Rust experience as a major plus.
  • •Collaborate with staff engineers and tech leads to establish platform standards, patterns, and best practices across the engineering organization.
  • •Own service stability and communication between systems, implementing both synchronous and asynchronous patterns at scale.
  • •Drive developer efficiency initiatives by creating tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that eliminate friction for product teams.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years as a software engineer with strong focus on backend systems and platform development.
  • •Deep experience with distributed systems and microservices, including building and maintaining APIs that serve multiple teams.
  • •Hands-on expertise with modern infrastructure — AWS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi.
  • •TypeScript proficiency with Rust experience strongly preferred.
  • •Office environment a minimum of 3 days a week.
Experience:5+ yearsBackendDistributed systemsMicroservicesAWS
Skills:CollaborationEmpathyCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:TypeScriptRustAWSKafkaRabbitMQEKSSQSLambdaHelmTerraformPulumi

Company Brief

Lemonade
Lemonade is a technology-first insurance carrier that uses AI and behavioral economics to offer renters, homeowners, pet, car, and life insurance with instant underwriting and claims, and a social-impact 'Giveback' model donating leftover premiums to nonprofits.
Industry: InsurTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2015
Glassdoor
Glassdoor: 3.5
WebsiteLinkedInGlassdoor