Android Engineer, Lyft
Lyft Media
$124-171k
Ride sharing company
Be an early applicant
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$124-171k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- You're an enthusiastic app developer looking to take your skills to the next level by joining our Android team
- As a qualified candidate, you have a record of leading projects to successful outcomes for users and the business
- You are a strong cross-functional partner having worked closely with designers, a great communicator, and above all, you approach problems holistically as a unified system
- 6+ years of experience as an Android developer
- Experience with leading a technical team is a bonus
- Advanced knowledge of Java and Kotlin
- Familiarity with RxJava
- Very knowledgeable about architecture and design patterns
- Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
- Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
- Has worked collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex products
- Strong communication skills and advanced proficiency in English
What the job involves
- Lyft’s mobile infrastructure teams are responsible for creating & maintaining the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, polished and efficient apps
- As a part of the UI & Architecture team at Lyft, you will be involved in creating the design system and our unidirectional architecture that all Engineers use to develop at Lyft
- You will be part of a team that ensures quality across all facets of the app
- Work collaboratively with our cross-functional team and partners including designers, iOS engineers, Web Engineers, and other Mobile Infrastructure teams to plan strategically and define the future of mobile design systems at Lyft
- Advance Lyft’s design system, Lyft Product Language, and DeclarativeUI library
- Help to continuously modernize our Android architecture
- Inspire the team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table that aim to ease developer friction and keep our codebase joyful to code in
- Support Android engineers from across the organization as they use the tools we build and leverage these interactions to improve our roadmaps and offerings
- Improve our code base through continuous refactoring
- Extend and implement our APIs
- Keep up-to-date with Android development
- The work responsibilities of this role are expected to take place during business hours in your local Time Zone in the United States
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 Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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