Frontend Infra Engineer, Lyft
$128-160k
Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$128-160k
Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
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
- 5 years of professional frontend software engineering experience
- Experience with frontend technology and experience leading frontend teams
- Experience working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating infrastructure at a large-scale
- You are steadfastly focused on your customers
- You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
- You have built teams that are motivated and value a strong sense of ownership
- Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
What the job involves
- The Control Systems team envisions a future where engineers seamlessly command their production workloads with ease and clarity
- We aspire to be the definitive interface for all production infrastructure interactions, transforming complexity into intuitive control and empowering Lyft Engineering to scale, operate and react in an emergency with confidence and efficiency
- As a Software Engineer on the Control Systems team, you will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for the production infrastructure tooling experience, and continuously develop and maintain the interfaces that enable our customers to manage their services and entities in production
- You will play a key role in shaping the team’s vision as well as executing on the strategy and delivering impactful solutions
- We count on the reliability of our infrastructure to empower Lyft teams to provide rich experiences for our customers that are reliable and available in order to ensure our transportation platform connects people and places
- Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges
- They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback
- They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean
- We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build
- Lyft’s Infrastructure teams are responsible for building the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, and efficient services
- We build scalable infrastructure that helps software developers move fast, while still providing them with the flexibility they need to innovate within their teams
- We are looking for experienced leaders to guide these teams as they create an exceptional development experience for all of Lyft
- These are high leverage roles, as your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering, and contribute directly to Lyft’s overall stability
- Be a part of the Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for maintaining and improving our infrastructure
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives
- Mentor and guide the technical development of your team members
- Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
- Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
- Work with engineers and stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
- Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our customers (other developers at Lyft)
- Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability
- Provide technical guidance and contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture at Lyft
- Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment
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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