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Lyft Senior Software Engineer, Market Expansion in Toronto, Canada
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.
Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both Drivers and Riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems with distributed computing, ML, data alongside building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.
Market Expansion team is responsible for evaluating and leading the work to launch Lyft rideshare services in new international markets. We work with regulators, marketing, product management, and engineering teams to adapt our services and apps to comply and launch our products in new markets. You will gain comprehensive knowledge of Lyft's internal services and operations and adapt them to meet the needs of launching new markets. You will have the opportunity to oversee and innovate the localization platform, including the integration of LLM models to enhance translation quality and efficiency. If you are passionate about expanding Lyft's global footprint and driving business growth, adaptable and eager to learn about diverse aspects of Lyft's technology and operations, this might be the role for you.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure
Collaborate with engineers and partners in science & product to drive projects from inception, specification, execution, or to launch
Build and operate large-scale distributed systems
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, including Open-Source projects
Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Experience:
5+ years of software engineering industry experience
BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems
Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms, etc)
Benefits:
Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Access to a Health Care Savings Account
In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. 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 now if you wish to make such a request.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
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