At Lyft, community is what we are and it’s what we do. It’s what makes us different. To create the best ride for all, we start in our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization where all team members are recognized for what they bring.

Lyft needs experienced engineers from a breadth of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched. Lyft is seeking an expert software engineer to join the Transit team. We are focused on the future of transportation and mobility. This is a high-velocity team of dedicated people who push each other to do our greatest work - and have each other’s back. We are looking for a team member who is a master of their domain, adaptable, and eager to take on the toughest challenges. Come change the world with us and take your skills to the next level.

Our platform is used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. We’re scaling backend and cloud infrastructure, optimizing real time and localized supply and demand, predicting future platform demand, creating intuitive UX flows, optimizing dispatch based on real-time data and real-world edge cases, and much more. 

Responsibilities:

• Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
• Act on feedback to learn and grow
• Unblock, support and effectively communicate across teams to achieve results

 Experience & Skills:

• Must have 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience or exposure to distributed systems
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• Ability to thrive in a startup environment
• Ability to write thorough, scalable and clear design documentation
• Designs, builds and improves a set of team owned components

Lyft is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.