Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
Routing
$144-180k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
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 an engineer with proven expertise in system architecture, big-data processing and graph algorithms and experience in building scalable solutions in the cloud environments
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Extensive experience in object-oriented programming (ideally Go or C++)
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing using AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with Linux
- Nice-to-have: Prior experience in navigation systems / maps
- Nice-to-have: Experience with big data processing / distributed data pipelines and tools such as Apache Airflow and Spark
- Experience building microservice-based architectures
- Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to uplift others
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in distributed teams spread across time zones. (US, Canada and Europe)
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Routing & ETA team that builds and maintains Lyft’s navigation system that powers millions of Lyft rides by generating routes and etas for each ride request on our platform
- To serve these needs, we need to suggest the fastest, most affordable and safest routes in real time
- We achieve this by processing millions of rides, taking into account the latest traffic information, road network data and real time events
- 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, machine learning and data science on building rideshare experiences that delight millions of riders and drivers
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best routing experience
- Build and deploy mission critical algorithms and microservices that can scale well to serve millions of requests per day (backend services: C++, Go, Python)
- Drive cross-team initiatives and mentor junior engineers
- Lead large projects from ideation to launch. Understand customer needs, write tech-specs to communicate system design, drive cross-functional collaboration and own project deliverables
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
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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