Job Description
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.
The Driver Verticals team (Airports & Scheduled Rides) is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable pre-booked and/or airports experience. You’ll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will involve ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into daily operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing journey for millions.
We’re seeking a Full Stack Engineer with strong frontend expertise to help build user-facing features as well as internal tools. You’ll work on products that directly delight both drivers and passengers.
This role emphasizes collaboration, ownership, and technical excellence. You’ll partner with product managers, data scientists, QA and operations teams to ship high-quality features that balance rapid iteration with long-term scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own features end-to-end from product specs through deployment and maintenance, ensuring high quality at every stage
- Drive frontend architecture for modern web applications using React, TypeScript, and Next.js
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate emerging technologies into our evolving infrastructure
- Shape the roadmap by contributing technical perspective on architecture decisions and business priorities
- Write maintainable code with comprehensive testing, clear documentation, and thoughtful design
- Support your team through pairing, healthy technical debates, and a culture of mutual growth
- Interface with stakeholders to gather requirements, communicate progress, and respond to technical questions
Experience:
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency building production-grade frontend applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frameworks
- Backend experience with Python and Flask
- Familiarity with AWS services (DynamoDB, SQS) and Kubernetes
- Experience designing, building, and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs
- Understanding of frontend fundamentals: JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, accessibility standards (WCAG/a11y), performance optimization, and component-driven architecture
- Proven ability to write comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end)
- Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Working knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases
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 with company match 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 and Lyft ride credits
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 in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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 CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.
This job fills an existing vacancy.
