Software Engineer, Pricing (Backend)
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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.
Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems.
The Pricing team is a centrepiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you.
Responsibilities:
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience.
- Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Utilize your expertise in Python, Golang, AWS to deliver robust and scalable solutions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Experience:
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 2+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Extensive experience in object oriented programming, ideally in GoLang or Python
- Experience in backend software development of distributed systems and concurrency
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners
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
Company
Lyft
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
100.000
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