# Backend Software Engineer, Airports

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Airports team at Lyft is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As a Backend Software Engineer on this team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports.

## Responsibilities:

- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience.

- Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch.

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

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

- Participate in our team's on-call rotation, identifying, triaging, debugging, and resolving issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms.

- Explain the trade-offs made in decisions.

- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

## Experience:

- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience.

- Experience with Python, Go.

- Proficiency in object-oriented programming.

- Experience working with data structures or algorithms.

- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team.

- Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects.

## Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled.

- Mental health benefits.

- Family building benefits.

- Child care and pet benefits.

- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future.

- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

- Subsidized commuter benefits.

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- object-oriented programming
- data structures
- algorithms

### Nice to have
- side projects
- open-source projects

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