Description
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Pickup, Places and Search team within the Mapping organization that is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the Rider and Driver product for the Pickup/Drop off Experience.
In this role, you'll collaborate with other engineering teams, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best customer experiences
- Lead backend and cross functional projects to achieve long term goals as well as deliver short term roadmaps
- Lead large features from idea to successful execution and launch
- Own systems and components within the team and be accountable for their short term functionality and long term health
- Participate in code and architecture reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well manage call rotations and proactively improving processes
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, mentoring others, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Experience:
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience
- Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
- Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Led a set of components or system from design to launch
Benefits:
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy.
- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits