Software Engineer, Telematics

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 claims tech engineering team. Our vision is to tangibly reduce risk on the Lyft platform, and by extension reduce insurance cost. Our team is dedicated to centralizing the entire claims operation onto a unified risk platform. This consolidation of data, workflows, and communications aims to foster proactive measures, enhance efficiency, ensure consistency, and provide valuable insights. These efforts are designed to effectively reduce claims costs as Lyft's operations expand. Additionally, our team is responsible for maintaining robust relationships with our third-party insurance partners, guaranteeing timely, proactive, and precise sharing of claim data.

Responsibilities:

• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Own feature from product spec to successful high quality development, deployment and maintenance
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Respond to external questions and requests.
• Unblock, support and communicate with stakeholders to achieve results

Experience:

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
• Design, build and improve a set of team owned components

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, s