Software Engineer Intern, Lyft

Backend, Summer 2025

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Toronto

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3 days a week in office

Lyft

Ride sharing company

Open for applications

Lyft

Ride sharing company

1001+ employees

B2CTravelTransportMobilityRidesharing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Toronto

More information about location

3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CTravelTransportMobilityRidesharing

Company mission

To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.

Role

Who you are

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science from a university in Canada, with a graduation date between December 2025 and Summer 2026 (required)
  • Available during Summer 2025 for the internship in Toronto
  • Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Passion for community, sustainability, and/or transportation
  • Ability to thrive in a startup environment
  • Experience with real-time technology problems
  • Contributions to open source projects
  • Experience working with databases
  • Experience solving real-time technology problems
  • Experience with mobile development

What the job involves

  • Interns work side-by-side with top engineers in the industry while having autonomy from the get-go
  • They contribute to user-facing products and are able to see their work go live quickly
  • Own your project, while checking in with other team members throughout the day with questions and updates
  • You leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactor)
  • You value reliability, ensured by testing (unit, integration and load tests)
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
  • Continuous integration and deployment
  • Go home knowing that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Lyft driver and every Lyft passenger!

Our take

Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.

Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.

In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)

Jun 2018

$600m

LATE VC

Mar 2018

$200m

LATE VC

Total funding: $4.9bn

Company benefits

  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
  • 401(k) plan to help save for your future
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
  • Family building benefits
  • Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

John Zimmer

(Co-Founder)

Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.

Logan Green

(Co-Founder)

Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.

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