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 Science 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 identifying and scoping opportunities, shaping team priorities, recommending and implementing technical solutions, designing experiments, and measuring the impact of new features.

As a Data Scientist on the Risk Solutions team, you will drive a mission critical to both the safety of our community and the financial resilience of our platform. You’ll partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Actuarial and Claims teams to transform complex data into actionable strategies. You will serve as an analytical lead for claims and road safety initiatives, designing experiments and predictive models aimed at reducing accident frequency and claim severity to optimize long-term risk outcomes. If you are a problem-solver eager to apply high-level data science to real-world safety and financial challenges, this role offers a direct path to high-impact innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage large-scale data and analytic frameworks to identify high-impact opportunities to reduce the total cost of claims. 
• Partner with product managers, engineers, actuaries, claims, and operators to translate data insights into decisions and action
• Construct and fit statistical, machine learning, or optimization models
• Design and analyze online experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions
• Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance
• Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, the business, as well as the driver experience
• Collaborate with the Claims team to identify high-impact opportunities where data-driven interventions can reduce the total cost of claims.

Experience:

• Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, actuarial science, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a data science, analytics, or management consulting role.  
• End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Ability to manage, influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a fast-moving environment
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience with insurance claims analytics a plus
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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 Risk Tech engineering organization is committed to tangibly reducing accident frequency, saving lives, and managing costs to enhance the safety and affordability of rides.

Claim Management is a core financial function for Lyft. Each claim touches complex workflows, multiple stakeholders, sensitive data, financial reserves, regulatory processes, and significant financial liabilities.

This role offers the opportunity to define a leading claims management system for the industry. Our vision is to establish a single, Unified Risk Platform where comprehensive claims workflows across all business lines are efficiently administered, communications are consolidated, and data is structured to facilitate data-driven insights and decisions.

This enables cost-efficient claims operations, mitigates risks and expenses as Lyft scales, and ensures people receive assistance proactively and accurately.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and lead the development of a highly reliable, scalable, and intelligent Risk Management Information System that powers our insurance platform. You will collaborate with passionate colleagues from Engineering, Data Science, Product and Claim Operations to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems, aligning priorities with Product, Claim Operations, Data Science, and other stakeholders.
• Provide architectural leadership, make informed design tradeoffs, and guide strategic decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Understand claim handling workflows, identify bottlenecks and multiply their productivity by driving platform innovations and resolving pain points with AI automation solutions
• Deliver scalable, reliable, high quality and well-tested solutions and code.
• Collaborate closely with Lyft internal teams and external insurance partners to ensure technical alignment and scalable integrations.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.
• Invest in the engineering community through knowledge sharing via brown bags, tech talks, and suggesting improvements to team processes and engineering practices.

Experience:

• B.S., M.S. in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant work experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience building scalable distributed systems with high availability, observability and reliability requirements.
• Proven ability to build end-to-end products and platforms, collaborating effectively with various stakeholders e.g. Backend, Frontend, Data Engineering, Data Science, Claim Operations, and Product teams.
• Strong ability to reason about tradeoffs in system design, architecture, domain modeling, and operational cost.
• Experience driving AI adoption or automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
• Proficiency in Python. Knowledge of React/Next.js and data analysis is a plus.
• Experience with data processing frameworks and tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow and cloud provisioning environments etc.
• Strong oral and written interpersonal skills.
• Prior experience in insurance, claims management, workflow orchestration or external vendors is a strong plus.

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Seattle area is $136,160 - $170,200 , not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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 an experienced backend software engineer to join our Telematics team. At Lyft, Telematics data is used to make Lyft safer by reducing accident risk, which in turn also makes Lyft more affordable for riders and a better way to earn a living for drivers. The Telematics team acts as a platform team that processes vast amounts of high-frequency ride data, serving our Telematics ML models (e.g. harsh braking, harsh acceleration, etc.) and deriving insights for partner teams.

Our technology stack runs on AWS, Kubernetes, Spark and Apache Airflow. In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering (mobile, server and data), machine learning and data science, actuarial science on building industry-leading innovations that make Lyft safer by reducing the frequency and severity of accidents on the platform.

If you are a seasoned engineer with a passion for innovation, high-volume data pipelines, microservices, working in cross-disciplinary environments and possess the skills to ensure the ongoing maintenance and improvement of services, you will thrive on our team!

You can read about some of the products that the Telematics powers in this blog post: https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyfts-impact-on-road-safety

Responsibilities:

• Be a champion of the team’s safety and affordability mission by serving as a reliable source of risk insights for other teams at the company
• Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability.
• Work cross-functionally with Data Scientists to productionize models to derive safety insights from Telematics data, driving the team’s industry-leading innovation in this space
• Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.
• Take a lead role in the ongoing maintenance of our Telematics systems, ensuring their stability and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine the roadmap for Telematics projects.
• Utilize your expertise in Python, AWS, Spark, SQL, etc. to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events

Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems
• Experience and/or interest in running large batch processing jobs with Spark or other large scale compute architectures
• Experience and/or interest in Library development
• Experience and/or interest in serving, versioning, monitoring ML models in production environments
• Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
• Experience with S3, Spark, Presto, Parquet
• You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your cross-functional teammates' goals and priorities
• You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team

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 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

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, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $136,000 - CAD $170,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.

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 Science 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 identifying and scoping opportunities, shaping team priorities, recommending and implementing technical solutions, designing experiments, and measuring the impact of new features.

As a Data Scientist on the Risk Solutions team, you will drive a mission critical to both the safety of our community and the financial resilience of our platform. You’ll partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Actuarial and Claims teams to transform complex data into actionable strategies. You will serve as an analytical lead for claims and road safety initiatives, designing experiments and predictive models aimed at reducing accident frequency and claim severity to optimize long-term risk outcomes. If you are a problem-solver eager to apply high-level data science to real-world safety and financial challenges, this role offers a direct path to high-impact innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage large-scale data and analytic frameworks to identify high-impact opportunities to reduce the total cost of claims. 
• Partner with product managers, engineers, actuaries, claims, and operators to translate data insights into decisions and action
• Construct and fit statistical, machine learning, or optimization models
• Design and analyze online experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions
• Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance
• Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, the business, as well as the driver experience
• Collaborate with the Claims team to identify high-impact opportunities where data-driven interventions can reduce the total cost of claims.

Experience:

• Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, actuarial science, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a data science, analytics, or management consulting role.  
• End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Ability to manage, influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a fast-moving environment
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience with insurance claims analytics a plus
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the New York City area is $148,000 - $185,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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 Risk Tech engineering organization is committed to tangibly reducing accident frequency, saving lives, and managing costs to enhance the safety and affordability of rides.

Claim Management is a core financial function for Lyft. Each claim touches complex workflows, multiple stakeholders, sensitive data, financial reserves, regulatory processes, and significant financial liabilities.

This role offers the opportunity to define a leading claims management system for the industry. Our vision is to establish a single, Unified Risk Platform where comprehensive claims workflows across all business lines are efficiently administered, communications are consolidated, and data is structured to facilitate data-driven insights and decisions.

This enables cost-efficient claims operations, mitigates risks and expenses as Lyft scales, and ensures people receive assistance proactively and accurately.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and lead the development of a highly reliable, scalable, and intelligent Risk Management Information System that powers our insurance platform. You will collaborate with passionate colleagues from Engineering, Data Science, Product and Claim Operations to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems, aligning priorities with Product, Claim Operations, Data Science, and other stakeholders.
• Provide architectural leadership, make informed design tradeoffs, and guide strategic decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Understand claim handling workflows, identify bottlenecks and multiply their productivity by driving platform innovations and resolving pain points with AI automation solutions
• Deliver scalable, reliable, high quality and well-tested solutions and code.
• Collaborate closely with Lyft internal teams and external insurance partners to ensure technical alignment and scalable integrations.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.
• Invest in the engineering community through knowledge sharing via brown bags, tech talks, and suggesting improvements to team processes and engineering practices.

Experience:

• B.S., M.S. in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant work experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience building scalable distributed systems with high availability, observability and reliability requirements.
• Proven ability to build end-to-end products and platforms, collaborating effectively with various stakeholders e.g. Backend, Frontend, Data Engineering, Data Science, Claim Operations, and Product teams.
• Strong ability to reason about tradeoffs in system design, architecture, domain modeling, and operational cost.
• Experience driving AI adoption or automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
• Proficiency in Python. Knowledge of React/Next.js and data analysis is a plus.
• Experience with data processing frameworks and tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow and cloud provisioning environments etc.
• Strong oral and written interpersonal skills.
• Prior experience in insurance, claims management, workflow orchestration or external vendors is a strong plus.

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000 , not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.