# Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace

**Company:** [Lyft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lyft)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** CA$136k – CA$170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**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
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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