Senior Android Engineer, Community Safety

at  Lyft

SENIOR ANDROID ENGINEER, COMMUNITY SAFETY

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.
You’re an experienced app developer looking to make a big impact and help take our Android team to the next level. We build apps 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. Within the teams, backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives keep us agile, and accountable. Continuous integration with automated testing allows us to run a bi-weekly release train. Our beta release process gives us useful insight into user behavior and heavy use of analytics, A/B testing and feature flagging allows for rapid iteration. With a focus on delightful user experiences, we balance building new features, refactoring code, and tweaking existing features based on analytics data. Every line of code gets reviewed by other developers, every pixel inspected by designers, and every feature hammered on by manual and automated QA.

EXPERIENCE:

• 6+ years of experience as an Android developer
• Experience with leading a technical team is a bonus
• Advanced knowledge of Java and Kotlin
• Familiarity with RxJava
• Very knowledgeable about architecture and design patterns
• Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
• Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
• Has worked collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex products

• Work within our product teams to design, build, and release exciting features and products in the Lyft Driver and Rider applications, used by millions of people every day
• Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Lead projects from idea to successful execution
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced interactions, which are a joy to use
• Oversee major changes to our Android architecture
• Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
• Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results