Driver Experience Backend Engineer (Hybrid, Toronto)

Lyft; Toronto (OH); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental coverage

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care benefits

Lyft Health Savings Account

RRSP plan with company match

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave (18 weeks)

Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft ride credits

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a product-minded engineer to build core driver experience features. You will collaborate with product, data science, analytics, and operations to deliver backend changes end-to-end with ownership and quality testing.

The role emphasizes shipping production-grade backend services, participating in code reviews, and addressing performance, reliability, and data integrity concerns. This is a hybrid in-office role in the Toronto area.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience with a history of shipping backend features in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (Go, Python, Java, or similar) with a solid understanding of performance and reliability fundamentals.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, querying, and basic indexing and performance considerations.
• Experience with observability tooling - logging, metrics, and alerting - and a developing instinct for how to make systems debuggable in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend features end-to-end with clear ownership, delivering well-scoped work from technical design through to production with moderate guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, reliable, well-tested code that meets team standards and holds up in code review.
• Participate actively in code reviews, giving specific and constructive feedback while continuing to develop your own review instincts.
• Debug and resolve issues across backend services including performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and data integrity issues.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and surface technical constraints early.
• Contribute to technical discussions and help evaluate implementation approaches for new features.
• Write unit and integration tests for your own code and develop familiarity with the team's broader testing and observability practices.
• Address technical debt and make incremental improvements to existing services as part of regular development work.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and support teammates in mitigating customer-impacting events.
• Communicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly within the team.

Skills

Backend languages

Performance focus

Distributed systems

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Observability tooling

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Unit/integration testing

Git workflows & CI/CD

Communication

Job description

Lyft is seeking a product-minded engineer to build core driver experience features. You will collaborate with product, data science, analytics, and operations to deliver backend changes end-to-end with ownership and quality testing.

The role emphasizes shipping production-grade backend services, participating in code reviews, and addressing performance, reliability, and data integrity concerns. This is a hybrid in-office role in the Toronto area.