Software Engineer, Lyft
Android
CA$108-135k
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$108-135k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced app developer looking to make a big impact and help take our team to the next level. We build apps used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work
- This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases
- 2+ years of experience as an Android developer
- Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
- Experience delivering high-quality code
- Experience using design and architecture patterns
- Proficiency in Java and Kotlin
- Good sense of usability and product
- Generalist engineer experience - experience building web services, accessing data storages
- Bonus Points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects, experience with unidirectional data-flow and reactive programming
- Strong communication skills and advanced proficiency in English
- Very knowledgeable about architecture and design patterns
- Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
- Worked collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex products
What the job involves
- You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences
- Keep up-to-date with Android development
- Build great UX for millions of users
- Work within our product teams to build exciting features
- New feature development and experimentation with further data analysis
- Solve challenging real-time data transfer and synchronization problems
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
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
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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