Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace
The Senior Software Engineer will lead backend engineering work for Lyft’s Marketplace, building AI-driven analytics platforms, data pipelines, and metric governance systems. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, backend microservices expertise, and experience with AI workflows and analytical modeling.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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, and maintainable code.
- Explain tradeoffs made in technical decisions.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
- Lead projects from ideation through successful execution.
- Incorporate business context and failure modes into technical work.
- Proactively help resolve ongoing incidents.
- Unblock, support, communicate effectively, and obtain buy-in across teams.
- Share knowledge through brown bags, tech talks, and engineering best-practice evangelism.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience with a high-level programming language.
- Experience with AI agentic workflows, model evaluation, causal models, and anomaly detection.
- Ability to learn quickly and make progress on poorly defined or unfamiliar problems.
- Strong communication and advocacy skills, with empathy for teammates’ goals and priorities.
- Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment.
- History of helping fellow engineers improve their productivity.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Python or Go.
Benefits and Compensation
- Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Mental health, family-building, child-care, and pet benefits.
- Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account.
- RRSP plan with company match.
- Flexible paid time off for salaried team members; hourly team members receive 15 paid days off, plus an additional day for each year of service.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave top-up for eligible biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Expected base pay range in the Toronto area: CAD $136,000–$170,000, excluding potential equity, bonus, and benefits.
Skills
Python, Go, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic Workflows, Model Evaluation, Causal Models, Anomaly Detection, Api Schemas, Backend Services, Microservices, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Metric Governance, High-Level Programming Languages, Code Review
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