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Senior Payroll Specialist in Toronto

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Facebook , Instagram , TikTok , and X ; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on LinkedIn . As a Senior People Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering thoughtful, scalable people programs and operational support across the employee lifecycle. As part of our People Operations team, you’ll combine strong operational expertise with the judgment and partnership skills needed to support HR Business Partners, managers, and employees through both day-to-day needs and more complex people matters. You’ll own and continuously improve key people programs and processes, with a particular focus on employee lifecycle operations, immigration

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📍 Toronto, Canada
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect, cultivating an inclusive environment where all team members can thrive. As the Business Systems Lead for Payroll & Time, you will lead Lyft's global migration onto Dayforce following recent acquisitions. Sitting within People Technology in Corporate Engineering and IT (CEIT), you'll join Lyft's Dayforce program at a formative moment: the initial rollout spans 12–15 countries over two-plus years, and you're joining early enough to directly shape how implementation, governance, and vendor management get done — not inherit a playbook someone else already wrote. You'll be backed by a mature, experienced Payroll Operations team who bring deep subject-matter expertise, while you own the technical and functional side: driving requirements, directing our systems integrator, and building the governance and vendor management model you'll run long-term as the platform's product/service owner. Sitting within People Technology in CEIT, you will drive requirements, make key functional decisions, and partner closely with Payroll Operations, HR, Legal, and Finance. You'll lead vendor delivery to ensure accurate, compliant payroll and time tracking across each migration wave, then own platform governance and vendor management long-term once the program stabilizes. We're looking for someone who can act as the translation layer between operations, executives, and technical teams — equally comfortable explaining payroll concepts to engineers and system constraints to business stakeholders. Responsibilities: Own Requirements and Direct the Implementation Partner Serve as the internal functional owner for the Dayforce payroll and time migration, driving requirements and directing the systems integrator partner. Translate payroll policy, collective bargaining terms, and statutory requirements — as defined by Payroll Operations and Legal — into actionable technical specifications. Validate vendor configurations against country-specific rule

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $115K/yr

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ROLE: SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER LOCATION: TORONTO The Role Salt XC is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the day-to-day financial management of The Kitchen, a large-scale embedded agency partnership with a Fortune 500 client. This role will be the primary Finance partner and point of contact for The Kitchen. While Salt’s broader Finance team will continue to execute transaction processing, including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and expense processing, this person will sit at the centre of the operation—ensuring projects are financially controlled, billings happen on time, revenue and costs are appropriately recognized, reporting is accurate, and stakeholders have clear and timely visibility into the financial health of the business. This is an ideal role for someone with strong project accounting and revenue accounting experience who is equally comfortable working with Finance teams, agency operators, producers and senior client stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Project & Financial Management • Own the financial oversight of approximately 100-150 client projects annually • Maintain accurate project financials, including budgets, committed costs, actual costs, billings and project-level profitability • Ensure production costs and employee expenses are accurately captured and allocated to the appropriate projects • Monitor project financial activity from initiation through final reconciliation and close • Identify financial discrepancies, aging items and project risks and proactively drive them to resolution • Maintain strong financial controls while supporting the speed and flexibility required in an agency environment • Identify areas for efficiency and cost reductions Revenue, Billing & PO Management • Own the financial workflow between project teams, both internal and external, to ensure projects are billed accurately and on tim

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$1.4M/yr

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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. Lyft is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst on our Comp & Benefits FP&A team, focusing on salary and headcount management, Equity, and Stock Based Compensation. The ideal candidate will bring natural curiosity, financial rigor and a continuous improvement mindset to the team and drive financial analysis in support of strategic decision making at Lyft. In addition to decision support, this role will also focus on forecast/budget management reporting. Responsibilities: Own forecasting and variance analysis for cash compensation, equity/stock-based compensation (SBC) Partner with Total Rewards and Technical Accounting on equity grant assumptions, vesting, forfeiture rates, and SBC expense recognition Support monthly close processes for compensation and equity lines, partnering with Payroll Accounting on actuals and accruals Maintain and improve Anaplan modules related to compensation and equity forecasting Support monthly headcount and comp forecast (start dates, backfills, attrition) as they relate to salary and equity cost Partner with People Team on Workday data integrity issues impacting compensation/equity reporting Prepare reporting packages and ad hoc analysis for leadership, earnings, and Corp FSLI submissions Identify and drive process improvements to increase automation and reduce manual reporting effort Experience: 3+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis in a rigorous environment Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment Excellent communicator with ability to storytell, zooming in and out as needed Strong Gsheets/Excel financial modeling and problem-solving skills Detail oriented, highly organized self-starter with a drive to understand core business issues coupled with high determination to uncover solutions Ability to organize and track overlapping tas

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$55K/yr

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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

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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C$115K – C$140K/yr

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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

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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C$80K – C$100K/yr

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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

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing
Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on LinkedIn. Lifecycle Marketing is a horizontal team that shapes how we engage clients and talent across the full journey, and this role sits in our demand-side acquisition lane. We’re hiring a Lifecycle Marketing Lead, Growth & Acquisition to own high-impact lifecycle programs that help close the new-client acquisition gap through smarter demand capture and stronger engagement with SMB audiences. You’ll lead key initiatives across outbound prospecting and always-on content, translate performance signals into clear recommendations, and help shape how lifecycle marketing contributes to Upwork’s 2026 priorities. This is a senior indi

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📍 Toronto, Canada
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Analyst, Customer Performance, Brand-1 Overview Mastercard operates the world’s fastest payment processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Every day, everywhere, we use our technology and expertise to make payments safe, simple and smart. We know safety and security are the top priorities of our customers, cardholders and partners, so we won’t stand still in developing new and better ways to keep payments safe. • Do you have experience conducting investigations, reviewing evidence, and documenting case outcomes? • Do you have knowledge of merchant onboarding, monitoring, customer response review, and potential Mastercard Standards violations? • Are you a high performer with strong analytical, documentation, and project management skills? • Are you collaborative, detail-oriented, and able to support credible investigations in a fast-paced environment? Mastercard’s Franchise Brand Performance Team advances ecosystem health and profitability by engaging our customers to optimize performance and to enhance the strength of our brand, acceptance network, and data. Role • Preserve the integrity of the Mastercard brand by conducting investigative case work under the Business Risk Assess

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Senior Engineering Manager, SDET — Okta Identity Governance (OIG) Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Identity Governance Team Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is Okta's Identity Governance and Administration solution, responsible for some of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how people request access, how approvers grant it, how entitlements are enforced, and how organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access. OIG is the leading contributor to Okta's new product bookings, and it runs inside some of the largest enterprises in the world — the kind of accounts where a single tenant carries hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications. Quality here is a compliance bar, not just a user experience one. When a governance product has a defect, a company can stay over-provisioned on access it believes it revoked, or hand an auditor evidence that isn't true. The Senior Engineering Manager, SDET Oppo

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. We are looking for a software engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the core building blocks of the product. In this role you will: Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM. Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform. Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns. Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system Design and build APIs that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure. Work on backend components written in Go and frontend components written in React. You might be a good fit if you: Have 3-5 years of software development experience with a background in Golang or similar programming languages. Proficient in React or similar front-end UI stacks. Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies. have the ability to complete a feature end to end from designing database models to backend APIs and frontend UI components. Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure. Thrive in a collaborativ

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Data Enablement Team Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Within the Data organization, the Data Enablement team is chartered with creating scalable semantic models that make it safe for anyone to see and understand data. By partnering with product and engineering leaders, this team owns the data lifecycle from strategy to prototyping to implementation, executive dashboard and product level self-service support. The Senior Data Analyst Opportunity Reporting to the Manager, Data Enablement - this role will be responsible for unlocking analytics across the company. You will do this through a combination of data lifecycle ownership, data tooling enablement and outreach programs designed to foster the safe usage of scalable data models for reporting and analytic consumption. You'll serve as a critical data and technical partner that empowers our Sales, TAM, and Customer Success teams with the deep product insights they need to succeed. An average week will find you partnering with these teams to understand their measurement needs, reviewing engineering plans to ensure we capture critical data signals from the Auth

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer in Test to join our Identity Management Engineering (IDM) team serving the Privileged Access Team (PAM). This team is passionate about delivering large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced Agile environment. In this role you'll be working with a team of highly-skilled and talented engineers, responsible for delivering sophisticated backend solutions that help Okta reliably operate at large scale and be highly available. As part of the team, you’ll be ensuring projects are completed with the highest quality and reliability using automation at every level for fast, robust and secure releases. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Review requirements and design specs to develop relative test plans and test cases Automate API tests, end-to-end tests, reliability/scale tests Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts Communicate and document QE plans for scrum teams to review Review application code, identify bug and other areas of weakness, architect tools for future coverage Automate all critical features to maintain zero-debt cadence Release features with solid quality Respond to production issues/alerts and customer issues during on-call rotation Be a strong customer advocate with a strong quality DNA. Requirements: 5+ years of QE experience preferably in an enterprise SaaS company 3+ years experience in quality engineering for enterprise level software. 5+ yea

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. We're looking for a Senior level Platform Engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who are proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership, we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. What you’ll do Leverage cutting-edge AI pair-programmers and LLMs (such as Copilot and Claude) to accelerate the development of secure, enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management (PAM) products. Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud-based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Kubernetes/EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, MKS, Redis, OpenSearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS) Drive evaluation, development, and rollout of microservices Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business. Evaluate and scale existing systems to meet specialized requirements and support Okta’s future business ne

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📍 Toronto, Canada
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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. Lyft is looking for software engineers from a scope of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. 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. The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution. As an Senior Software Engineer on the Rider Team, you will work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation to improve riders' experience with rideshare. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams oncall rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex features and products from idea to positive execution Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices Provide technical mentorship and feedback to junior engineers Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs Experience: B

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