Hybrid Backend AI Engineer — Scalable Systems & APIs

Triwill Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental coverage

Life insurance and disability benefits

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

RRSP with company match

Paid time off (PT0) and flexible PTO

Hybrid schedule with in-office 3 days

Lyft ride credits

Job summary

Lyft is hiring a Backend Engineer for the AI Entries team in the Toronto area. You will build foundational infrastructure that connects Lyft to AI ecosystems, architect APIs, and orchestration layers for third-party agents and multimodal interfaces.

Responsibilities include establishing engineering best practices, driving high-impact projects, mentoring peers, and delivering maintainable code while collaborating across product, data science, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience.
• Experience with Python and Go.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), distributed systems, and databases such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB.

Responsibilities

• Establish engineering best practices and patterns; uplift the team’s craft and drive a culture of engineering excellence.
• Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to deliver the best user experience.
• Produce and drive scalable system design for large, complex features—from idea through execution and launch.
• Mentor engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and supporting their growth.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge across the team.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation; identify, triage, debug, and resolve issues across our applications and platforms.

Skills

Python

Go

Object-oriented programming

Data structures

Team collaboration

Education

BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Lyft is hiring a Backend Engineer for the AI Entries team in the Toronto area. You will build foundational infrastructure that connects Lyft to AI ecosystems, architect APIs, and orchestration layers for third-party agents and multimodal interfaces.

Responsibilities include establishing engineering best practices, driving high-impact projects, mentoring peers, and delivering maintainable code while collaborating across product, data science, and operations teams.