At Lyft, the Fulfillment group within the Marketplace is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and fulfilling rider requests. This involves generating feasible offers, matching riders with drivers, and maintaining a distributed state machine to track rides and drivers from request through completion. The company is looking for a Software Engineer to solve challenging technical problems in this domain.
Requirements
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming
- 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.)
- Proficiency in scripting languages to use APIs to automate manual processes
- Experience with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, TeamCity), and proficiency in at least one of those tools
- Sold knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases
- Fulfillment owns services written in Golang and Python
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of the Fulfillment tech stack
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Lead projects from idea to positive execution
- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results
Other
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 2+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Ability to communicate in English in writing, meeting and presentations
- This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
- Hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
