Software Engineer

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.Lyft needs experienced engineers from a scope of disciplines. As a Backend Engineer on Scheduled Rides, you will build new, differentiated products that improve riders' and drivers' experience with rideshare and make it easy to choose Lyft every time. Your role will be essential in ensuring Lyft's premium planned-rides offering is both dependable and a delightful user experience. On projects, you will work closely with mobile engineers, and engineers from different teams. The team collaborates closely with product, design, marketing to deliver business-critical initiatives and exciting new use cases. Responsibilities:Help establish the team's roadmap and re-architecture of our systemsWrite well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable codeParticipate in code reviews to ensure the team is maintaining a high quality barShare your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practicesCan help lead large projects from idea to positive executionUnblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve resultsExperience:Minimum 2-3 years of software engineering industry experienceExperience with object-oriented programmingExperience in distributed systemsExperience working with databases, relational and NoSQLFamiliarity with working in PythonWrite clear design documentationDesign, build and improve a set of team owned componentsBenefits:Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefitsMental health benefitsFamily building benefitsChild care and pet benefitsAccess to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings AccountRRSP plan to help save for your futureIn addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.Subsidized commuter benefitsLyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #HybridThe expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.