10 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Establish engineering best practices, patterns, and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Drive high-impact projects and develop scalable system designs from ideation through launch.
- Build and maintain robust backend infrastructure, APIs, and orchestration layers for AI ecosystems, agents, and multimodal interfaces.
- Write readable, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance.
- Participate in on-call rotations, including issue identification, triage, debugging, and resolution.
- Explain technical tradeoffs and manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ 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 with object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
- Effective use of AI coding tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a low-ego, cross-functional team.
- 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 benefits, and pet benefits.
- Access to a Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account and an RRSP plan with company match.
- Flexible paid time off for salaried employees, while hourly employees receive 15 days plus an additional day per year of service.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave through a top-up plan for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Hybrid Toronto work arrangement requiring at least three in-office days per week, specifically Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with flexibility to work remotely from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.
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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.