Software Engineer,Risk Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Software Development

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

We are looking for experienced backend software engineers to join our Risk Tech engineering team. Our vision is to tangibly reduce risk on the Lyft platform, and build the best tools and workflows for both internal and external parties to collect and report accident details quickly, accurately, and comprehensively and provide people with the help they need. Our team is dedicated to establishing a single, Unified Risk Platform where the end to end claim workflows across all teams/business lines are efficiently managed, all communications are consolidated, all data is organized for data-driven intelligence, which enables a cost efficient claim operation at individual and overall program levels, and ultimately drive down risks and cost as Lyft businesses scale.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our Risk Tech suite

Own feature from product spec to successful high quality development, deployment and maintenance

Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code

Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work

Unblock, support and communicate with stakeholders to achieve results

Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events

Experience:

4+ years of relevant professional experience

Experience with object-oriented programming

Experience in distributed systems

Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment

Experience working with databases, relational or No

SQL

Experience writing clear and scalable design documentation

When facing a problem that's poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly learn what you need to dig in, make sense of the problem, and start working towards a solution

You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your teammates' goals and priorities

You have a history of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer to make them more productive

You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team

[Bonus] Experience with Frontend/Fullstack development (React or similar)

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 is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. 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 if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be…


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