Senior Software Engineer, Recommendations at Lyft, Toronto, Canada.

Full time, hybrid, in office at least 3 days a week.

Lyft's Applied AI group is hiring a senior engineer onto its Recommendations team in Toronto, building the backend systems that decide what riders get shown and when. Lyft prints the base pay range on the advert, which is still unusual for a senior engineering role in Canada.

The filter is seniority: five years of production experience, Python and Go, and distributed systems.

Requirements

BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience

5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience

Experience with Python and Go

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), distributed systems, and databases such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB

Proficient and effective in using AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate coding and engineering workflows

Proficiency in object-oriented programming





Experience working with data structures or algorithms

Participate in the team's on-call rotation The role offers:

Expected base pay range CAD $136,000 to CAD $170,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits

Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits

Mental health benefits

Family building advantages

Child care and pet benefits

Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account

RRSP plan to help save for your future

Flexible paid time off policy for salaried team members, with manager approval

18 weeks of paid time off for new parents, as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible

Subsidized commuter benefits

Hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year

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