Senior Fullstack Engineer, Lyft
Growth Platforms
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs
- Candidate who thrives in tackling complex, ambiguous challenges and can craft effective technical solutions
- You should be ready to take ownership of a project or feature, guiding it from design all the way through to implementation
- Over 5 years of software engineering experience with advanced expertise in JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML
- Strong understanding of browser behaviour and the DOM, focusing on web performance and asset optimization
- Proficient in TypeScript, Python, and CSS preprocessors like Sass
- Experienced with Node Package Manager (NPM), and modern frontend testing tools such as Jest, and React testing library including unit and end-to-end testing
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming, distributed systems, and both relational and NoSQL databases
- Familiar with containerization technologies, and version control systems like Git
- Successfully led the design and launch of multiple components from concept to production
What the job involves
- As a Fullstack Engineer, with your technical expertise you will build and own innovative web applications with a desire to achieve exceptional design fidelity, usability, accessibility, and performance across both desktop and mobile browsers
- You will be responsible for sound technical execution of web projects through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping
- These projects will require close collaboration with our product managers, user interface designers, brand producers, data scientists, and engineering teams
- You’ll be managing multiple exciting projects at once, so being able to juggle these initiatives is key!
- We’re also counting on you to be a champion for best frontend practices, guiding engineers, designers, and management along the way
- The Growth Platforms team owns both the Incentives & Messaging systems for Lyft. These systems determine & send the right messaging and/or incentives to the right user at the right time. We work with lyft-wide engineering teams including rider & driver side, marketing, and product management to adapt our services and the platform offerings to be able to enable growth across Lyft
- You will gain comprehensive knowledge of Lyft's internal services and operations and adapt them to meet the growth needs. You will have the opportunity to build and improve the quality and efficiency of the various growth tools that are critical for Lyft
- Help establish roadmaps and architecture based on technology and our needs
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Lead large projects from idea to launch
- Write documents to communicate system design, launch, and share knowledge
- Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations
- Unblock, support, and communicate with internal and external partners to achieve results
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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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
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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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