Software Engineer, Lyft
Matching
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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're looking for a motivated Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging technical problems and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative and cross-functional environment where they will take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing
- This team is good for someone who is excited about algorithmic/back-end systems and an opportunity to own a mission-critical part of the golden path
- Passionate about Lyft business & product; good learner and collaborator; eager to drive things to happen, inside the team and across teams Small and close team; passionate and collaborative co-workers
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 1-3 years of software engineering industry experience
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming
- 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 with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, TeamCity), and proficiency in at least one of those tools
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases
- Ability to communicate in English in writing, meeting and presentations
What the job involves
- As a software engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other software engineers and cross functions like product, data science and analytics to lead and execute large projects from idea to efficient execution
- Matching is responsible for improving the way drivers are dispatched at Lyft and hence has an outsized impact on business-level goals such as increased driver utilization and lower fulfillment cost
- The team is involved in defining new modes (FastPass, W&S), tuning scoring and filtering decisions, intelligently applying geospatial (walking) and temporal (waiting) levers, and expanding the time horizon over which we evaluate our decisions
- Matching is unique in that a majority of projects and enhancements are originated by individual contributors (both DS and SWE) themselves based on their ideas for improving the system
- The space of possible improvements is vast and it's easy to get excited about a potential idea, implement it, and see it improving passenger/driver experiences shortly thereafter
- Matching runs the most experiments of any team at Lyft
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
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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
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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