Senior Fullstack Engineer, Growth Platforms

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. Lyft is a global ecosystem of dynamic workplaces, and our Canada location is no different. We have an ambitious goal to strengthen our international presence by growing a life-changing product, and your efforts will play an essential role in our collective success.

Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both Drivers and Riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. We’re looking for someone who can build & own innovative web applications, passionate about solving problems with distributed computing in building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.

As a Fullstack Engineer, with your technical expertise you will build and own innovative web applications with a desire to achieve exceptional design fidelity, usability, accessibility, and performance across both desktop and mobile browsers. You will be responsible for sound technical execution of web projects through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping. These projects will require close collaboration with our product managers, user interface designers, brand producers, data scientists, and engineering teams. You’ll be managing multiple exciting projects at once, so being able to juggle these initiatives is key! We’re also counting on you to be a champion for best frontend practices, guiding engineers, designers, and management along the way.

We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs. We’re looking for a candidate who thrives in tackling complex, ambiguous challenges and can craft effective technical solutions. You should be ready to take ownership of a project or feature, guiding it from design all the way through to implementation. 

The Growth Platforms team owns both the Incentives & Messaging systems for Lyft. These systems determine & send the right messaging and/or incentives to the right user at the right time. We work with lyft-wide engineering teams including rider & driver side, marketing, and product management to adapt our services and the platform offerings to be able to enable growth across Lyft. You will gain comprehensive knowledge of Lyft's internal services and operations and adapt them to meet the growth needs. You will have the opportunity to build and improve the quality and efficiency of the various growth tools that are critical for Lyft. 

Responsibilities:

• Help establish roadmaps and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Lead large projects from idea to launch
• Write documents to communicate system design, launch, and share knowledge
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations
• Unblock, support, and communicate with internal and external partners to achieve results

Experience:

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience with advanced expertise in JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML.
• Strong understanding of browser behaviour and the DOM, focusing on web performance and asset optimization.
• Proficient in TypeScript, Python, and CSS preprocessors like Sass.
• Experienced with Node Package Manager (NPM), and modern frontend testing tools such as Jest, and React testing library including unit and end-to-end testing.
• Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming, distributed systems, and both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiar with containerization technologies, and version control systems like Git.
• Successfully led the design and launch of multiple components from concept to production.

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

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, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offenses, 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 following the establishment of a Lyft office in Toronto — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.