Software Engineer, Lyft
$128-160k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Posted today
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Posted today
$128-160k
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
- Extensive experience in object-oriented programming (ideally C++ or Go)
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing using AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with big data processing / distributed data pipelines and tools such as Apache Airflow and Spark
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in Mapping technologies
What the job involves
- At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect
- We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive
- Our transport network serves the needs of millions of people every day who want to get from one place to another using Lyft cars, bikes and scooters, with public transportation, or on foot in the most efficient way
- To serve these needs, we need to suggest the fastest, most affordable and safest routes
- We achieve this by processing millions of rides, taking into account the latest traffic information and analyzing the preferences of drivers
- To strengthen our efforts, we are hiring a Software Engineer who will work on improving our routing engine, on building cloud-based services that can process millions of route requests per day and on creating workflows to process and analyze the data collected from our rides
- For this we are looking for someone who has a strong background in software architecture and algorithms and understands at the same time how to build efficient cloud based services.
- Our technology stack is based on the latest technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes and Apache Airflow
- You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on projects that delight millions of passengers and drivers
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best routing experience possible
- Build and deploy mission critical algorithms and services that can serve millions of requests per day (routing engine: C++, backend services: Go, Python)
- Analyze rides, understand customer pain points, prioritize and size feature requests and help design solutions based on our business needs
- Create a resilient and scalable infrastructure (cloud-based services and workflows) that enables rapid iteration
- Participate in our production on call rotation to maintain our services, ensuring their stability and reliability
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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