About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will lead work streams to improve business operations in Lyft’s Marketplace. You'll design AI driven data analytics platforms, data pipelines and metric governance systems that our business leaders use on a daily basis to make key strategic decisions. You will partner with business leaders and data scientists across our organizations to enable running the business more efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
- Drive AI innovation for business analytics and operations
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Lead projects from idea to positive execution
- Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience with a high level programming language (bonus points for experience with Python or Go)
- AI Experience in Agentic workflows, Model Evaluation, Causal models and Anomaly detection
- When facing a problem that's poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly learn what you need to dig in, make sense of the problem, and start working towards a solution
- You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your teammates' goals and priorities
- You have experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- You have a history of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer to make them more productive
Skills
- Python
- Go
- AI
- Agentic workflows
- Model Evaluation
- Causal models
- Anomaly detection
- API schemas
- Backend services
- Microservices
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $136,000 - CAD $170,000
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
- 18 weeks of paid time off for new parents (biological, adoptive, and foster)
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits
About the Company
- Lyft's purpose is to serve and connect.
- Lyft aims to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
- Lyft is growing its team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched.
- As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers.
Equal Opportunity
- Lyft 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.
