Toronto, CAN
1 day ago
Software Engineer, Prime Time & Offer Selection
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. The Marketplace teams at Lyft are at the heart of our products and decision-making, responsible for accelerating the growth of the business and for delivering our top business/company goals around financial metrics and marketplace performance. Pricing is an integral part of achieving this goal. Our team is responsible for setting the prices for every single ride at Lyft, across all rides types, in order to balance Lyft’s two-sided marketplace, which sees millions of requests each day. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems with distributed computing, ML, data alongside building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment. As a Marketplace engineer, on the Pricing team, you will be developing our core systems for managing real-time supply and demand balance via adaptive pricing. In this role, you will work closely with the Product and Data Science teams on a wide array of challenges. This will range from large scale distributed systems and sub millisecond request serving to real-time forecasting, experimentation, and ML modeling. **Responsibilities:** + Responsible for the design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure + Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code/scripts and configurations + Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade-offs made in decisions + Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge + Lead projects from idea to positive execution + Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation + Incorporate considerations for business context, failure modes, monitoring, compliance, and security 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 **Experience:** + BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience + 3+ years in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems, and/or experience with data infrastructure + Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems + Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.) + Proficiency in scripting languages to use APIs to automate manual processes + Experience with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, TeamCity), and proficiency in at least one of those tools + Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL + Experience developing and shipping ML models is desirable **Benefits:** + Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits + Mental health benefits + Family building benefits + Child care and 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 _Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request._ _This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year._ _The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process._
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