We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who’s passionate about Lemonade’s mission of revolutionizing insurance through tech and AI.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Machine Learning Platform team, you’ll play a crucial role in creating the architecture and building our cutting-edge ML platform to support the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle. In this role, you’ll drive business-wide ML projects from an engineering perspective, leveraging cloud-native technologies to empower our data scientists and engineers.

In this role you'll

• Design and develop an internal ML platform to support data scientists in their research and development efforts
• Implement cloud-native microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, leveraging infrastructure-as-code to automate the deployment and management of machine learning models
• Drive the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from training and testing to deployment and monitoring in real-time or near real-time environments
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies based on workload characteristics and performance requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage projects with various stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business goals

What you’ll need

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of delivering high-scale, production-grade projects
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, as well as cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Experience with training, testing, deployment, and monitoring real-time (or near real-time) machine learning models in production, a plus
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field
• Ability to work in an office environment a minimum of 3 days a week
• Enthusiasm about learning and adapting to the exciting world of AI – a commitment to exploring this field is a fundamental part of our culture