20 days ago
Toronto, CanadaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend features end-to-end from technical design through production.
- Write clean, reliable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
- Debug and resolve performance, reliability, and data integrity issues across backend services.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, data teams, operations, and partner engineering teams.
- Write unit and integration tests and improve observability and service reliability.
- Address technical debt and incrementally improve existing services.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
- Communicate progress, blockers, technical tradeoffs, and implementation constraints clearly.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience shipping backend features in production.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
- Understanding of distributed systems, including microservices, REST or gRPC APIs, message queues, and asynchronous processing.
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, querying, indexing, and performance considerations.
- Experience with observability practices including logging, metrics, and alerting.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience maintaining unit and integration tests.
- Familiarity with Git workflows, code review processes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to independently scope and break down moderately complex tasks.
- Strong communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, mental health benefits, family building benefits, child care benefits, and pet benefits.
- Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account and RRSP plan with company match.
- Flexible paid time off for salaried team members, while hourly team members receive 15 days plus an additional day per year of service.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave supporting biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Hybrid Toronto work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the office, including Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with up to four weeks per year working from anywhere.
About Lyft
Lyft is a NASDAQ-listed transportation marketplace that connects riders with drivers and offers bike and scooter rentals in one app. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates across the U.S. and parts of Canada. Its revenue comes from service fees on rides and rentals, enterprise programs, and consumer subscriptions such as Lyft Pink.