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 team is dedicated to fostering a platform of high-quality service by empowering drivers to perform their best. We are looking for a product-minded engineer who wants to build and improve products that sit at the center of the core driver experience. Products you drive will solve pain points that matter most to drivers by streamlining key interactions, reducing friction, and creating systems that feel intuitive, fair, and supportive. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. Responsibilities: Design and implement backend features end-to-end with clear ownership, delivering well-scoped work from technical design through to production with moderate guidance from senior engineers Write clean, reliable, well-tested code that meets team standards and holds up in code review Participate actively in code reviews, giving specific and constructive feedback while continuing to develop your own review instincts Debug and resolve issues across backend services including performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and data integrity issues Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and surface technical constraints early Contribute to technical discussions and help evaluate implementation approaches for new features Write unit and integration tests for your own code and develop familiarity with the team's broader testing and observability practices Address technical debt and make incremental improvements to existing services as part of regular development work Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and support teammates in mitigating custome
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About the Role: The Growth team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to full funnel user acquisition and growth, including SEO user registration, onboarding, and account management. As a Staff Engineer (L5) on this team, you act as the technical leader for one or more Growth areas. You own the technical architecture and direction, solve ambiguous problems that few others can, and influence cross-functional teams across multiple pods. You will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features, while driving the front-end architecture that ensures performance and scalability for millions of users. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Own the technical roadmap and architecture for a Growth area with large amounts of ambiguity: driving direction across web, mobile web, and smart TV platforms, and influencing the team to invest in new projects. Solve challenging, ambiguous problems with a focus on scalability and performance; proactively identify systemic issues and propose innovative solutions. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features; independently design, implement, and interpret a series of A/B experiments that move growth metrics. Lead and coordinate major rollouts and releases: including cross-team coordination, migrations, and phased releases of major initiatives across Web and OTT apps. Establish team-wide quality and engineering standards; set the bar for code quality and front-end best practices. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall fr
About the Role: Join us in shaping the future of streaming. Tubi is a free, ad-supported streaming service with a mission to make entertainment accessible to everyone. We serve millions of viewers with a massive library of movies, TV shows, live channels, and personalized recommendations, all without a subscription. As streaming continues to evolve, Tubi is building the technology, product experiences, and platform capabilities that help people discover and enjoy content effortlessly across every screen. If you’re excited by consumer-scale mobile engineering, high-quality user experiences, and the opportunity to impact how millions of people watch entertainment, we’d love to meet you. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. About the team: The Android team at Tubi builds the app experience that millions of users rely on to discover, browse, and watch content. We care deeply about performance, stability, accessibility, and thoughtful product execution. Our work spans core playback experiences, content discovery, personalization, onboarding, advertising experiences, and the mobile platform foundations that help teams ship quickly and safely. As a Senior Android Engineer, you will design, build, and deliver high-quality product features for Tubi’s Android app. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, QA, Data, and other client teams to create intuitive, reliable, and scalable mobile experiences. You’ll also help guide technical direction, improve engineering standards, mentor other engineers, and contribute to the long-term health of our Android codebase. This is a role for someone who enjoys building polished consumer products, solving complex technical problems, and raising the bar for Android engineering. What you’ll do Build elegant, performant, and reliable Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android development practices Lead the full l
About the Role: The team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to user acquisition and growth, including but not limited to user registration, onboarding, SEO, and account management. As part of this team, you will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features that enhance the user experience. In addition to front-end development, you’ll be responsible for building the underlying technical architecture to ensure performance and scalability, while proactively exploring engineering-driven features and experiments that can drive user growth. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Work with product management and other stakeholders (Backend, Product, and UI/UX) to iterate on new growth-related features, including registration, onboarding, and SEO. Lead the technical architecture and implementation of scalable and resilient applications that run on multiple platforms, such as web, mobile web, and smart TV devices. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features that push the boundaries of user experience in streaming. Consistently ship features and improvements across Web and OTT apps with minimal guidance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact updates. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall front-end infrastructure. Take ownership of the codebase and proactively identify opportunities for refactoring and development process improvement. Mentor and collaborate with fellow engineers, sharing technical expertise and contributi
From C$1.4M/yr
About the Role: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Tubi is not a traditional operations team. We are a software engineering organization that applies a developer's mindset and toolkit to the challenges of building and running large-scale, distributed systems. Our mission is to engineer resilience from the ground up, enabling our product teams to innovate rapidly while ensuring our users have a stellar experience. We own the availability, latency, performance, and capacity of our platform, and we achieve our goals through a culture of data-driven decision-making, blameless learning, and relentless automation. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you are a hands-on engineer who blends deep software development expertise with a passion for operational excellence. You will be responsible for designing, building, and running the resilient, scalable, and increasingly self-healing systems that power our products. You will apply sound engineering principles to solve our most complex reliability challenges, with a mandate to automate everything, eliminate toil, and write robust, maintainable code. You will be a force multiplier, mentoring other engineers and elevating the site reliability bar for the entire organization. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: System Architecture & Design: Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Partner with development teams as a reliability consultant, reviewing designs and influencing architectural decisions to ensure new services are built with reliability, observability, and performance as core principles, not afterthoughts. Automation & Software Development: Write robust, performant, and maintainable code to automate operational tasks, and CI/CD pipelines. Build the internal tools, libraries, and frameworks that enable engineering teams to self-service their
From C$190K/yr
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance and improve go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams. You’ll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers to design, build, and scale backend systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to work on complex product and data problems while contributing meaningfully to technical decisions, system quality, and team delivery. We are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST time zone, with a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you’ll be doing You will play an important role in the continued evolution of our application stack. You will design and build backend capabilities for complex product workflows, contribute to system design discussions, and help ensure our systems remain maintainable, reliable, and scalable as we grow. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are expected to operate with strong ownership and sound technical judgment. This includes identifying risks in the work you own, surfacing edge cases, asking thoughtful questions, and proposing improvements that strengthen the quality and reliability of the system. You will: Design and build backend services that power complex product workflows. Contribute to d
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the team Engineers on this team build the application our customers and internal teams use to configure, operate, manage, and visualize complex incentive compensation workflows. There are many complex and difficult areas across the product, especially across frontend architecture and user experience, because of high data volumes, wide configurability, complex business logic, and mission-critical operational workflows. The work is not just about building screens; it is about helping users understand, act on, and trust complex compensation data and operational processes. We are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST timezone, with some teammates in PST and Central. We are far from maintenance or simple progressive evolution in many areas; there is a lot of room to make a meaningful impact on the overall user experience, product architecture, and frontend design patterns. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the Staff Frontend Engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Forma’s customer-facing and internal operations experiences. You’ll operate as a frontend technical leader, working across teams to drive alignment, set standards, and solve complex, ambiguous problems in a highly configurable, data-intensive product. You’ll partner closely with product, design, engineering, and leadership to define not just what we build, but how we build it — ensuring
From C$55K/yr
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team: The Customer Operations team works closely with new and existing customers by implementing product features, managing the operational parts of the platform, and optimizing our client’s sales performance management processes. We are always ready to support and help our customers to identify ways they can unleash the revenue-driving potential of their sales compensation program. If you’re passionate about data analytics and want to contribute to sales operations, we’d love to hear from you! What you’ll be doing: Own the day-to-day customer relationship, building strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders across a portfolio of customers Act as an architect for a new customer, translating data inputs and required business logic into Forma rule / system logic, commission engine architecture and outputs Learn design of the company's platform to the extent of being able to independently complete updates, enhancements, and change requests Work with Forma.ai's Product and Engineering teams to articulate customer feedback that informs the priority of new product features and to implement new platform features to support continuous improvement and automation Manage customer expectations regarding deliverables and project timelines, ensuring Forma is positioned for success Develop a deep understanding of each client's strategic positioning, key products, business model, and strategic objectives. Be responsible
C$115K – C$140K/yr
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team: The Customer Operations team works closely with new and existing customers by implementing product features, managing the operational parts of the platform, and optimizing our client’s sales performance management processes. We are always ready to support and help our customers to identify ways they can unleash the revenue-driving potential of their sales compensation program. If you’re passionate about data analytics and want to contribute to sales operations, we’d love to hear from you! What you’ll be doing: Own the day-to-day customer relationship, building strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders across a portfolio of customers Act as an architect for a new customer, translating data inputs and required business logic into Forma rule / system logic, commission engine architecture and outputs Learn design of the company's platform to the extent of being able to independently complete updates, enhancements, and change requests Work with Forma.ai's Product and Engineering teams to articulate customer feedback that informs the priority of new product features and to implement new platform features to support continuous improvement and automation Manage customer expectations regarding deliverables and project timelines, ensuring Forma is positioned for success Develop a deep understanding of each client's strategic positioning, key products, business model, and strategic objectives. Be responsible
C$80K – C$100K/yr
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team: The Customer Operations team works closely with new and existing customers by implementing product features, managing the operational parts of the platform, and optimizing our client’s sales performance management processes. We are always ready to support and help our customers to identify ways they can unleash the revenue-driving potential of their sales compensation program. If you’re passionate about data analytics and want to contribute to sales operations, we’d love to hear from you! What you’ll be doing: Own the day-to-day customer relationship, building strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders across a portfolio of customers Act as an architect for a new customer, translating data inputs and required business logic into Forma rule / system logic, commission engine architecture and outputs Learn design of the company's platform to the extent of being able to independently complete updates, enhancements, and change requests Work with Forma.ai's Product and Engineering teams to articulate customer feedback that informs the priority of new product features and to implement new platform features to support continuous improvement and automation Manage customer expectations regarding deliverables and project timelines, ensuring Forma is positioned for success Develop a deep understanding of each client's strategic positioning, key products, business model, and strategic objectives. Be responsible
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Senior Staff Backend Engineer About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you'll be doing You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on
Overview: Qsight is a high-growth division of Guidepoint focused on building data intelligence solutions for the healthcare sector. Qsight leverages proprietary datasets and rigorous analysis of alternative data sources to generate actionable insights for top-tier institutional investors, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. The Qsight team develops market intelligence products designed to be highly relevant, accurate, and scalable – delivering superior insights to a diverse, global client base. We are seeking an experienced, motivated Tehnical Operations Engineer to join our growing team. This is a multiple-hats role focused on SaaS/platform operations and tier-2 support for client-facing systems. You will own the administration and reliability of key tools, troubleshoot and resolve escalations with clear documentation, and build lightweight automation and reporting to reduce manual work as we scale. You will partner closely with Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to proactively monitor, support, and improve critical systems. Through practical, creative problem-solving, you will strengthen reliability, accelerate time to resolution, and increase operational visibility. Day to day, you will triage and resolve client technical questions, manage vendor license administration and renewals, and produce reporting that informs operational decisions. This role is a launchpad toward an SRE/Platform Engineering track as you grow into deeper automation, reliability engineering, and systems design work. This is a hybrid position based out of our Toronto office. What You’ll Do: Platform Support Own routine ops and configuration changes for critical SaaS platforms – Including Tableau, Freshdesk, Datadog, and our own client facing and internal portals Configure and maintain Freshdesk portals, routing, SLAs, permissions, integrations, etc. based on business requirements. Automate manual operations with Python, PowerAutomate, and shell scri
From C$108K/yr
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 Identity & Integrity organization is looking for software engineers. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched and safe. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. As a Software Engineer in the Identity team, your primary responsibilities will encompass: Lyft’s Login & Signup Experiences: Design and enhancement of our Multi-factor authentication (MFA) experiences. Optimization of verification funnels, including: Phone-based two-factor authentication (2FA) Email verification Identity provider single sign-ons (SSO) Overseeing session management and device validation. Developing OAuth client provisioning and related tooling. Account Security: Act as the frontline defense against fraudsters and phishers aiming to exploit rider and driver accounts through product vulnerabilities. Implement strategies to counteract risks posed by social engineering tactics. Scaling Core Services: Lead the maintenance and optimization of core microservices under the Identity team's purview, essential to Lyft’s diverse service offerings. Manage organizational structures and multi-user management systems. (RBAC, family accounts, AuthZ) Design solutions for high-stakes challenges such as: Preventing unauthorized driving. Thwarting abuse related to recycled phones and their numbers. Striking a balance between stringent customer verification and ensuring minimal user friction. Responsibilities Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Implement identity and security protocols to se
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer ne
From C$102K/yr
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. Data is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. You will leverage data and rigorous, analytical thinking to shape our products and make business decisions. This will involve performing rigorous product deep dives, identifying opportunities for product enhancements, and measuring the impact of product changes. The Airports team, within the Driver organization, focuses on the airport marketplace and the unique products designed for this use case. Airports are one of the most important, impactful, and complex parts of Lyft’s Rideshare business, as they are a key part of both the rider and driver Lyft experience and have unique dynamics. As an Analytics Lead on the Airport team, you will collaborate with our team of engineers, product managers, and designers to conduct thorough data deep dives on airport performance, challenge our current strategy, and recommend enhancements to facilitate market growth. The ideal candidate can apply strong business acumen to propose product and marketplace changes, and is comfortable working with a highly cross functional team. In this role, you will help us tackle problems such as: How should we determine pricing and earnings for airport rides? Who are our current airport drivers and what segment can we focus on to grow our supply? How does this strategy interact with driver bonuses? Which airports are underperforming and which key metrics can we use to identify and classify airport performance? What targets should we set for these key metrics and how do we efficiently monitor these metrics? What is driving high cancellation rates today and which types of riders/drivers are cancelling? What product changes can we implement to reduce cancellation rates? How are riders and drivers using different ride modes at airports, and how do we design
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