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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 the Scheduled Rides or Events team, 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 may work with mobile engineers, or even 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 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

Experience:

• 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

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.