2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Establish engineering best practices and patterns and promote engineering excellence across the team.
- Drive high-impact projects and scalable system designs for complex features from ideation through launch.
- Build foundational infrastructure, APIs, and orchestration layers connecting Lyft with AI ecosystems, devices, third-party agents, and multimodal interfaces.
- Write well-tested, readable, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
- Mentor engineers by providing technical guidance and supporting their growth.
- Participate in on-call rotation and identify, triage, debug, and resolve application and platform issues.
- Explain technical tradeoffs and manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Requirements
- BS/MS or equivalent practical experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of software engineering or production infrastructure industry experience.
- Experience with Python and Go.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, distributed systems, and databases such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB.
- Proficiency using AI tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor to accelerate coding and engineering workflows.
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience with data structures or algorithms.
- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally.
- Bonus: experience with LLM orchestration such as LangChain, vector databases, or APIs for conversational agents.
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, mental health benefits, family building benefits, child care and pet benefits, and a company-funded Health Care Savings Account.
- RRSP plan with company match, flexible paid time off for salaried employees, and paid parental leave of up to 18 weeks.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Hybrid, in-office schedule requiring at least three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with up to four weeks per year working from anywhere.
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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.