Senior Frontend Engineer, Lyft
Lyft Business
$148-185k
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3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148-185k
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
- 4+ years of professional frontend engineering experience
- Proven track record designing and leading large-scale frontend features and projects
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks, especially React
- Experience working with Next.js
- Strong understanding of web performance, browser internals, and the DOM
- Highly skilled in responsive design, and design language systems
- Experience with comprehensive testing (unit, integration, end-to-end)
- Skilled at writing clear, scalable design documentation and leading architectural discussions
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design
- Experience leading frontend teams and guiding planning, prioritization, and execution
- Customer-focused mindset with a collaborative, creative approach to problem-solving
- Nice to have: Experience with accessibility
- Nice to have: Experience of GraphQL
What the job involves
- Frontend Engineers at Lyft develop and own innovative web applications using JavaScript, React, and Sass - focused on design fidelity, usability, accessibility, and performance across desktop and mobile
- You’ll work closely with designers, engineers, and stakeholders, often across multiple concurrent projects, while championing strong frontend standards
- Lead and drive high-impact frontend projects and initiatives from concept to launch, aligning with business goals
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and high-performance frontend solutions, delivering exceptional user experiences
- Own key frontend systems and components, overseeing development, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical leadership through architectural reviews, system design discussions, and promotion of engineering best practices
- Share knowledge via brown bags, tech talks, and mentoring, fostering team growth and skill development
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to unblock, support, and communicate effectively to achieve results
- Participate in on-call rotations, monitor systems proactively, lead post-incident reviews, and drive operational excellence initiatives
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.
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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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