Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Department: Engineering

Location: Canada

Compensation: CA$172K – CA$237K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Employment Type: FullTime

As the largest global shared micromobility business, Lime is on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. A Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Company, Lime has powered more than one billion rides in close to 30 countries across five continents, spurring a new generation of clean alternatives to car ownership. Learn more at li.me.

The Platform Engineering team at Lime is responsible for enabling software engineers to build, test and deploy Lime products globally at scale through resilient, cost effective and secure infrastructure, and high-quality developer and data science tooling.

The ideal candidate will have experience working in an evolving startup environment. You will be an in the moment problem solver with the ability to think about the short term and long term plan. Youre energized about building and scaling and being part of a forward-thinking organization.

This is a remote position with a requirement for candidates to reside in Canada to maintain effective collaboration across teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Identify, define, and solve strategically essential technical problems, including architecting and building highly scalable foundational platforms, leading new product initiatives, and revamping existing core application experiences.

• Implement and manage security controls to ensure compliance with SOX and other relevant regulations

• Mentor and lead other engineers at Lime. Identify and develop future leaders.

• Support audits and due diligence processes related to infrastructure

• Advise Lime’s leadership team on key technology adoption and process improvements.

• Contribute to shaping the overall engineering culture at the company.

• Participate in the teams on-call rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to root cause analysis and service reliability improvements.

• Respond to and troubleshoot production issues, outages, and critical alerts during assigned on-call shifts.

• Escalate incidents as needed and collaborate with team members to restore service.

• Document issues and contribute to improvements that reduce recurring incidents.

• Be available to provide occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday support while on call.

About You:

• 7+ years of industry professional software development experience and a track record of building impactful products or systems.

• Skilled at writing logical and maintainable code, and providing clear feedback in code reviews.

• Owner’s mindset. You’re a self-starter and get things across the finish line.

• Strong influencer. You motivate and empower your team to go above and beyond.

• Technical proficiency to understand and contribute to the design and implementation of projects and ideas.

• Excellent communication and effective prioritization skills in working with competing priorities.

• Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting production systems, including occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday coverage, with responsibility for responding to critical alerts, coordinating escalations to restore service, and documenting issues to help prevent recurrence.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in a pre-IPO or public company environment is a plus

• Operating Ruby on Rails in a cloud environment for 2+ years is a plus

The base salary range listed reflects what Lime reasonably expects to offer for this role, with the final base salary determined by objective factors such as the candidate’s location and relevant skills and experience. Depending on the position, the total compensation package may also include discretionary annual performance bonus opportunities and equity, subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.

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If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page.

Lime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to building and developing a team that reflects a wider range of backgrounds, abilities, identities, and experiences. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or hiring process, please email recruiting-operations@li.me for assistance.