Senior Software Engineer, Frontend/Full Stack

 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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and drive high-impact projects and initiatives that align with business goals, ensuring successful execution from the idea to launch.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and high-performance frontend solutions, ensuring an exceptional user experience.
• Own key systems and components within the frontend architecture, driving their development, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Provide technical leadership through architectural reviews, system design discussions, and driving improvements in team processes and engineering best practices.
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal and external partners to achieve results
• Participate in on-call rotations, proactively monitor systems, lead post-incident reviews, and drive operational excellence initiatives.

 Experience:

• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a strong focus on frontend development.
• Proven experience designing and leading the implementation of large-scale frontend features and projects.
• Strong understanding of server-side application frameworks such as Express, Nest.js, or Flask.
• Experience with comprehensive testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, scalable design documentation and lead architectural discussions.
• Nice to have: Knowledge of Python, experience defining API schemas, and developing backend services in a microservices environment.
• Nice to have: Experience working with databases, both SQL and NoSQL.

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 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, 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 now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $136,000-187,000 CAD. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.