Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety — Build Safe, Scale Impact

Socotra, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

RRSP with company match

Hybrid in‑office schedule

Lyft Health Care Savings Account

Paid time off and parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Lyft in Toronto is hiring a Backend Engineer for Trust & Safety to ship high‑impact safety features across the platform, collaborating with product, design and policy teams.

You will work at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and policy, delivering robust, scalable solutions using Go, Python and AWS in a distributed backend environment. The role emphasizes collaboration, on‑call duties, and technical leadership.

Qualifications

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Extensive experience in object oriented programming, ideally in GoLang or Python.
• Experience in backend software development of distributed systems and concurrency.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross‑functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities.
• Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Utilize your expertise in Python, Golang, AWS to deliver robust and scalable solutions
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Job description

Lyft in Toronto is hiring a Backend Engineer for Trust & Safety to ship high‑impact safety features across the platform, collaborating with product, design and policy teams.

You will work at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and policy, delivering robust, scalable solutions using Go, Python and AWS in a distributed backend environment. The role emphasizes collaboration, on‑call duties, and technical leadership.