# Software Engineer Intern, Backend (Summer 2027 - Toronto)

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/8767710002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cceeb502-b6d

## Description

As a Software Engineer Intern, Backend at Lyft, you will work side-by-side with top engineers in the industry, contributing to user-facing products and seeing your work go live quickly.

## Responsibilities:

- Own your project, while checking in with other team members throughout the day with questions and updates

- Ensure the code is in a better state than when you found it through progressive refactoring

- Value reliability, ensured by testing, including unit, integration, and load tests

- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

- Engage in continuous integration and deployment

- Know that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Lyft driver and every Lyft passenger!

## Experience:

- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science from a Canadian university, with a graduation date between December 2027 and Summer 2028

- Available during Summer 2027 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

## Benefits:

- Mental health benefits

- In addition to holidays, interns receive 2 days paid time off and 3 days sick time off

- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- CS fundamentals
- real-time technology
- open source projects
- databases
- mobile development

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Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/8767710002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)