Senior Software Engineer, Mapping & Rider Experience

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

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental coverage

Mental health benefits

RRSP plan with company match

Paid time off & flexible PTO

Job summary

Lyft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Pickup, Places and Search team within the Mapping organization in Toronto. You will help build, enhance and maintain rider and driver experiences, focusing on the pickup/dropoff journey and real‑time routing.

This role collaborates across engineering, product, data science, analytics and operations to deliver high-impact mapping features for millions of rides.

Qualifications

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure experience.
• Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.).
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL.
• Led a set of components or system from design to launch.
• Proficiency with Go and Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best customer experiences
• Lead backend and cross-functional projects to achieve long term goals as well as deliver short term roadmaps
• Lead large features from idea to successful execution and launch
• Own systems and components within the team and be accountable for their short term functionality and long term health
• Participate in code and architecture reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well manage call rotations and proactively improving processes
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, mentoring others, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE

Job description

Lyft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Pickup, Places and Search team within the Mapping organization in Toronto. You will help build, enhance and maintain rider and driver experiences, focusing on the pickup/dropoff journey and real‑time routing.

This role collaborates across engineering, product, data science, analytics and operations to deliver high-impact mapping features for millions of rides.