Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
Rider, Server
$144-180k
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
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
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
- Experience working with kubernetes and container technologies (e.g. Docker, cri-o, etc)
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team
What the job involves
- As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers
- The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders
- From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Rider Team, you will work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation to improve riders' experience with rideshare
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Participate in our teams oncall rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms
- Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex features and products from idea to positive execution
- Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Provide technical mentorship and feedback to junior engineers
- Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
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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Insights
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
Articles
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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