
Backend Software Engineer
- Montreal, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Lead projects from idea to positive execution
- Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- See the direct impact of your work on the efficiency of our operating teams and the experience of Lyft riders.
- 3+ years of software engineering industry
- Experience with object-oriented programming (bonus points for Python or Go)
- Experience in distributed systems (eg: kubernetes, gRPC)
- Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components
- Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- Culture of investigating and solving problems outside of your expertise
- Culture of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer
- Must be fluent in spoken and written English and have a working proficiency in French
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan to help save for your future
- In 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
- Lyft 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.
- Subsidized commuter benefits