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Products you drive will solve pain points that matter most to drivers by streamlining key interactions, reducing friction, and creating systems that feel intuitive, fair, and supportive. \nAs 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.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign and implement backend features end-to-end with clear ownership, delivering well-scoped work from technical design through to production with moderate guidance from senior engineers\nWrite clean, reliable, well-tested code that meets team standards and holds up in code review\nParticipate actively in code reviews, giving specific and constructive feedback while continuing to develop your own review instincts\nDebug and resolve issues across backend services including performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and data integrity issues\nCollaborate with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and surface technical constraints early\nContribute to technical discussions and help evaluate implementation approaches for new features\nWrite unit and integration tests for your own code and develop familiarity with the team's broader testing and observability practices\nAddress technical debt and make incremental improvements to existing services as part of regular development work\nParticipate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and support teammates in mitigating customer-impacting events\nCommunicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly within the team\nExperience:\n3-5 years of software engineering experience with a history of shipping backend features in production environments\nStrong proficiency in one or more backend languages (Go, Python, Java, or similar) with a solid understanding of performance and reliability fundamentals\nSolid working knowledge of distributed systems concepts - microservices, REST and/or gRPC APIs, message queues, and async processing patterns\nFamiliarity with relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, querying, and basic indexing and performance considerations\nExperience with observability tooling - logging, metrics, and alerting - and a developing instinct for how to make systems debuggable in production\nComfortable working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) at a feature level, with a growing understanding of how services are deployed and operated\nExperience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests with a focus on reliability and regression prevention\nFamiliarity with Git workflows, code review processes, and CI/CD pipelines\nAbility to scope and break down moderately complex tasks independently\nGood communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving\nBenefits:\nExtended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits\nMental health benefits\nFamily building benefits\nChild care and pet benefits\nAccess to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account\nRRSP plan with company match to help save for your future\nIn 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 \nLyft 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.\nSubsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits\nLyft 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.\nLyft 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. 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