Senior AI Software Engineer, Risk - Insurance Claims Management

Lyft

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Seattle, WA Posted 44 days ago $148,000–$185,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Software Engineer on Lyft’s Risk Tech engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the technical direction for a unified claims management system. Your responsibilities include defining long-term roadmaps, providing architectural leadership, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions that enhance operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making. You will leverage AI automation and multimodal LLMs to streamline complex workflows, improve productivity, and ensure accurate claim handling across various business lines. Proficiency in Python, experience with distributed systems, and familiarity with tools like Spark, Kafka, and Airflow are essential, as is a background in insurance or claims management to effectively address the unique challenges of this domain at scale.

Skills

Python React Next.js Kafka Spark Airflow Terraform AWS CI/CD AI LLMs RAG NLP Docker Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes

What you'll do

  • Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems.
  • Provide architectural leadership and guide strategic decisions across multiple engineering teams.
  • Identify claim handling bottlenecks and resolve pain points with AI automation solutions.
  • Deliver scalable, reliable, high-quality solutions and code with thorough testing.
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure technical alignment.
  • Lead code reviews, design reviews, and incident triaging processes.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years experience building scalable distributed systems with high availability and reliability.
  • Proven ability to build end-to-end products and platforms, collaborating effectively across multiple teams.
  • Strong capability in reasoning about system design tradeoffs, architecture, domain modeling, and operational costs.
  • Experience developing AI features using multimodal LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows.
  • Proficiency in Python; knowledge of React/Next.js and data analysis is beneficial.
  • Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and cloud provisioning environments.
  • Strong oral and written interpersonal skills for effective collaboration.

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $216k
This role $166k
$135k most similar roles pay here $272k

This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $186,156–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $216k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company offering ride-hailing services across the US and Canada.

Lyft currently has 31 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,000–$185,000 across 31 roles with salary data.

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