Software Engineer, Lyft
Driver Experience
CA$108-135k
+ potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Be an early applicant
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$108-135k
+ 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
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience with a history of shipping backend features in production environments
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (Go, Python, Java, or similar) with a solid understanding of performance and reliability fundamentals
- Solid working knowledge of distributed systems concepts — microservices, REST and/or gRPC APIs, message queues, and async processing patterns
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, querying, and basic indexing and performance considerations
- Experience with observability tooling — logging, metrics, and alerting — and a developing instinct for how to make systems debuggable in production
- Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) at a feature level, with a growing understanding of how services are deployed and operated
- Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests with a focus on reliability and regression prevention
- Familiarity with Git workflows, code review processes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to scope and break down moderately complex tasks independently
- Good communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product-minded engineer who wants to build and improve products that sit at the center of the core driver experience. Products you drive will solve pain points that matter most to drivers by streamlining key interactions, reducing friction, and creating systems that feel intuitive, fair, and supportive
- As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers
- Design and implement backend features end-to-end with clear ownership, delivering well-scoped work from technical design through to production with moderate guidance from senior engineers
- Write clean, reliable, well-tested code that meets team standards and holds up in code review
- Participate actively in code reviews, giving specific and constructive feedback while continuing to develop your own review instincts
- Debug and resolve issues across backend services including performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and data integrity issues
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and surface technical constraints early
- Contribute to technical discussions and help evaluate implementation approaches for new features
- Write unit and integration tests for your own code and develop familiarity with the team's broader testing and observability practices
- Address technical debt and make incremental improvements to existing services as part of regular development work
- Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and support teammates in mitigating customer-impacting events
- Communicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly within the team
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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