Software Engineer, Scheduled Rides

Lyft•Toronto, ON

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. 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.

Requirements

Minimum 3-4 years of software engineering industry experience
Experience with object-oriented programming
Experience in distributed systems
Experience working with databases, relational and NoSQL
Familiarity with working in Python
Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
Design, build and improve a set of team owned components

Responsibilities

Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results

Benefits

Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Child care and pet benefits
Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
Flexible paid time off policy for salaried team members
15 days paid time off for hourly team members, with an additional day for each year of service
18 weeks of paid time off for new parents (biological, adoptive, and foster)
Subsidized commuter benefits
Lyft ride credits