Full Stack Software Engineer, Lyft
Frontend-Focused
CA$108-135k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$108-135k
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
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency building production-grade frontend applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frameworks
- Backend experience with Python and Flask
- Familiarity with AWS services (DynamoDB, SQS) and Kubernetes
- Experience designing, building, and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs
- Understanding of frontend fundamentals: JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, accessibility standards (WCAG/a11y), performance optimization, and component-driven architecture
- Proven ability to write comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end)
- Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Working knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases
What the job involves
- As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable pre-booked and/or airports experience
- You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry
- Your responsibilities will involve ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into daily operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing journey for millions
- We're seeking a Full Stack Engineer with strong frontend expertise to help build user-facing features as well as internal tools. You'll work on products that directly delight both drivers and passengers
- This role emphasizes collaboration, ownership, and technical excellence. You'll partner with product managers, data scientists, QA and operations teams to ship high-quality features that balance rapid iteration with long-term scalability
- Build and own features end-to-end from product specs through deployment and maintenance, ensuring high quality at every stage
- Drive frontend architecture for modern web applications using React, TypeScript, and Next.js
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate emerging technologies into our evolving infrastructure
- Shape the roadmap by contributing technical perspective on architecture decisions and business priorities
- Write maintainable code with comprehensive testing, clear documentation, and thoughtful design
- Support your team through pairing, healthy technical debates, and a culture of mutual growth
- Interface with stakeholders to gather requirements, communicate progress, and respond to technical questions
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 trialled 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, whilst the acquisition of European competitor Freenow could add 6 million new riders to its platform in 2026.
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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