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 experienced engineers who can build with product focus, are passionate about solving problems with distributed computing in building reliable systems, and are excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment. 

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 platforms & tools that are critical for Lyft. 

As a Software Engineer for Growth Platforms, you will lead multiple work streams that improve the platform in enabling different product use cases and experiences for growth. This requires close collaboration with our product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams. 

We're looking for proactive, results-driven engineers who thrive in solving real-world problems through thoughtful, well-designed software solutions. If you enjoy navigating complex and ambiguous challenges, and turning them into clear, impactful outcomes—this role is for you.

You’ll have the opportunity to take full ownership of projects or features, from shaping the design to delivering clean, scalable implementations. We're excited to work with people who are curious, collaborative, and ready to make a difference from day one.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with product managers, engineers, data scientists to build platform enhancements.
• Lead project / feature enhancements from design to launch
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• 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:

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience (advanced degrees are a plus)
• Strong programming experience, especially in Python (Golang is a big plus!)
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, distributed systems, and both relational and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with containerization tools like Docker/Kubernetes, and version control systems like Git
• A track record of launching production-ready components from idea to deployment
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset—you'll be working closely with product, data, and engineering partners

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.
• 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.