Frontend Software Engineer

at  Lyft

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
We are looking for experienced frontend (or full stack) software engineers to join our Risk Tech engineering team. Our vision is to tangibly reduce risk on the Lyft platform, and build the best tools and workflows for both internal and external parties to collect and report accident details quickly, accurately, and comprehensively and provide people with the help they need. Our team is dedicated to establishing a single, Unified Risk Platform where the end to end claim workflows across all teams/business lines are efficiently managed, all communications are consolidated, all data is organized for data-driven intelligence, which enables a cost efficient claim operation at individual and overall program levels, and ultimately drive down risks and cost as Lyft businesses scale.

EXPERIENCE:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React
• Experience in one of server side application frameworks like Express, Nest.js, Flask
• Experience writing unit and e2e tests
• Experience writing clear and scalable design documentation
• Nice to have knowledge of Python, experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
• Nice to have experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• When facing a problem that’s poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly learn what you need to dig in, make sense of the problem, and start working towards a solution
• You’re a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your teammates’ goals and priorities
• You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our Risk Tech suite
• Own feature from product spec to successful high quality development, deployment and maintenance
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
• Unblock, support and communicate with stakeholders to achieve results