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Responsibilities
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate solutions that improve customer experiences.
- Lead backend and cross-functional projects against long-term goals and short-term roadmaps.
- Lead large features from ideation through execution and launch.
- Own team systems and components, ensuring short-term functionality and long-term health.
- Participate in code and architecture reviews, manage call rotations, and improve engineering processes.
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
- Mentor others through brown bags and tech talks and promote appropriate engineering practices.
Requirements
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering or production infrastructure industry experience.
- Experience designing, debugging, and operating fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases.
- Experience leading components or systems from design through launch.
- Proficiency with Go and Python is a significant plus.
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, mental health benefits, family building benefits, child care and pet benefits, and access to a Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account.
- RRSP plan with company match.
- Salaried team members receive flexible paid time off with manager approval; hourly team members receive 15 paid days off plus an additional day per year of service.
- Eligible new parents receive 18 weeks of paid time off under a top-up plan complementing provincial programs.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Hybrid in-office schedule requiring at least 3 days per week, including Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
About Lyft
Whether it’s an everyday commute or a journey that changes everything, Lyft is driven by our purpose: to serve and connect. In 2012, Lyft was founded as one of the first ridesharing communities in the United States. Now, millions of drivers have chosen to earn on billions of rides. Lyft offers rideshare, bikes, and scooters all in one app — for a more connected world, with transportation for everyone.