Software Engineer, Lyft
Telematics
CA$136-187k
+ Equity & Bonus
3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$136-187k
+ Equity & Bonus
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 software engineering industry experience
- Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems
- Experience and/or interest in running large batch processing jobs with Spark or other large scale compute architectures
- Experience and/or interest in Library development
- Experience and/or interest in serving, versioning, monitoring ML models in production environments
- Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- Experience with S3, Spark, Presto, Parquet
- You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your cross-functional teammates' goals and priorities
- You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team
What the job involves
- Be a champion of the team’s safety and affordability mission by serving as a reliable source of risk insights for other teams at the company
- Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability
- Work cross-functionally with Data Scientists to productionize models to derive safety insights from Telematics data, driving the team’s industry-leading innovation in this space
- Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment
- Take a lead role in the ongoing maintenance of our Telematics systems, ensuring their stability and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine the roadmap for Telematics projects
- Utilize your expertise in Python, AWS, Spark, SQL, etc. to deliver robust and scalable solutions
- Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events
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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