Fullstack Engineer, Lyft
CA$108-135k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
- 3+ years of front and backend software engineering industry experience
- Strong skills in a scripting language (Python, Bash, etc) and object-oriented programming
- Strong experience with JavaScript, React, NextJS and Typescript
- Experience with styled Components, React Hooks, REST API, gRPC, GraphQL, Redux
- Experienced with npm, and modern frontend testing tools such as Jest, and React testing library including unit and end-to-end testing
- Experience working with data structures and algorithms
- Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
- Nice to have experience of working directly with cross-functional data analytics, data scientists, and engineering teams to bridge Lyft’s business goals with data engineering
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Fullstack Engineer to join Lyft’s Experimentation and Metric Platform team
- The services and tools the team owns are at the heart of decision-making at Lyft as they power running online tests and collecting insights about their resulting business impact
- We host a suite of services, data pipelines and statistical/machine learning models that are behind both traditional and adaptive experiments
- As a full stack engineer, you are expected to build and own end-to-end products across the stack, design highly scalable distributed solutions with a desire to achieve exceptional usability and performance
- You will be responsible for sound technical execution of backend and web projects through hands-on development and quality assurance
- Your close collaborators will be passionate colleagues with data engineering, data science, and product management expertise with whom you’ll work closely to deliver on projects that delight millions of passengers and drivers
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code and participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distributed knowledge
- Lead large projects from idea to launch
- Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms
- Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex features and products from idea to positive execution
- Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
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.
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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