At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft needs experienced engineers from a scope of disciplines. As a Backend Engineer on Scheduled Rides, you will build new, differentiated products that improve riders’ and drivers’ experience with rideshare and make it easy to choose Lyft every time. Your role will be essential in ensuring Lyft’s premium planned-rides offering is both dependable and a delightful user experience. On projects, you will work closely with mobile engineers, and engineers from different teams. The team collaborates closely with product, design, marketing to deliver business-critical initiatives and exciting new use cases.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 3-4 years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience working with databases, relational and NoSQL
• Familiarity with working in Python
• Write clear design documentation
• Design, build and improve a set of team owned components

• Help establish the team’s roadmap and re-architecture of our systems
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure the team is maintaining a high quality bar
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results