# Senior Software Engineer, Lyft Business

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,000 - $185,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/8445493002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Lyft is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer for its Business Travel team, which enables organisations to provide customised ride benefits at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build systems that power complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers like Concur and Expensify.

Responsibilities:

- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code

- Explain trade-offs made in decisions

- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

- Implement tasks with good quality code leading to positive execution

- Participate in resolving ongoing incidents

- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in within your team to achieve results

Experience:

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale

- Strong system design instincts , reasoning through distributed systems trade-offs, identifying failure modes, and choosing the right architecture

- Practical experience with AI development to improve product experiences

- Hands-on experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

- Proficiency in object-oriented programming; experience with languages and frameworks used in Lyft's stack is a plus

- Solid foundations in relational and NoSQL databases , data modelling, query optimisation, and operational considerations

- Experience in finance, including expensing or travel platforms, is a strong plus

- Fin Tech experience is a strong plus

- Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions in writing, in design reviews, and across teams

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs

- Mental health benefits

- Family building benefits

- Child care and pet benefits

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Discretionary paid time off and 18 weeks of paid parental leave

- Subsidised commuter benefits

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $148,000 - $185,000.

## Skills

### Required
- Backend Engineering
- System Design
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Environment
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Relational Databases
- NoSQL Databases
- AI Development

### Nice to have
- Fin Tech
- Expensing or Travel Platforms
- Finance

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