Senior Android Engineer, Lyft
Mobile Foundations
$148-185k
Offers equity
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$148-185k
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- An enthusiastic and experienced mobile developer looking to use your engineering skills to improve developers’ ability to ship new features quickly
- You get excited about new Kotlin features and compile improvements
- You find delight in building the foundations and frameworks to accelerate the development of others, hiding away the complexities of the system
- You are a diplomat who looks at the landscape and aligns engineers from different teams around a common pattern
- You are excited about scaling millions of lines of Kotlin code to hundreds of mobile developers
- You take initiative to identify and improve processes and solve problems proactively
- You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code with well-designed APIs, prioritizing clear design principles for reliability
- Experienced in delivering high-quality code
- Experience working with internal developer productivity teams or projects
- Strong experience with Kotlin
- Experience with UIKit, declarative UI development and creating shared components
- Familiarity with current design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc)
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling difficult challenges
- A strong sense of ownership for the things you build and a commitment to continuous improvement
- Bonus Points: contributions to open source projects, experience with Compose, experience with unidirectional and reactive programming
What the job involves
- As a Mobile Engineer on the Mobile Foundations team, you will create and maintain foundational systems that all Lyft mobile engineers rely on, enabling teams across Lyft to deliver rich experiences that connect people and places
- You will build scalable infrastructure, helping developers move fast and innovate, while ensuring Lyft's mobile developer experience remains at the forefront
- Your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering and contribute directly to Lyft's overall stability
- Develop and maintain reliable mobile infrastructure, including networking, architecture, and UI frameworks (Lyft Product Language), to enable Lyft Android engineers to deliver high-quality mobile experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (designers, iOS engineers, Web engineers, and other Mobile Infrastructure teams) to strategically define the future of mobile UI and architecture, ensuring an innovative mobile developer experience at Lyft
- Support Android engineers from across the organization as they use the tools we build and leverage these interactions to improve our roadmaps and offerings
- Bring new ideas to the table that aim to ease developer friction and keep our codebase joyful to develop in while continuously improving the codebase through refactoring
- Stay current with Android development and contribute to open-source projects like the Mobile Native Foundation
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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