Senior AI Software Engineer, Risk - Insurance Claims Management
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
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Senior AI Software Engineer, Risk - Insurance Claims Management at Lyft in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems, aligning priorities with Product, Claim Operations, Data Science, and other stakeholders.
- Provide architectural leadership, make informed design tradeoffs, and guide strategic decisions across multiple engineering teams.
- Understand claim handling workflows, identify bottlenecks and multiply their productivity by driving platform innovations and resolving pain points with AI automation solutions
- Deliver scalable, reliable, high quality and well-tested solutions and code.
- Collaborate closely with Lyft internal teams and external insurance partners to ensure technical alignment and scalable integrations.
- Lead code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.
What a strong candidate brings
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- Proven ability to build end-to-end products and platforms, collaborating effectively with various stakeholders e.g. Backend, Frontend, Data Engineering, Data Science, Claim Operations, and Product teams.
- Strong ability to reason about tradeoffs in system design, architecture, domain modeling, and operational cost.
- Experience driving AI adoption or automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
- Proficiency in Python. Knowledge of React/ Next.js and data analysis is a plus.
- Experience with data processing frameworks and tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow and cloud provisioning environments etc.
- Strong oral and written interpersonal skills.
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- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
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