Lyft aims to serve and connect people by providing the fastest, most affordable, and safest routes for transportation. To achieve this, they need to improve their routing engine and build cloud-based services that can process millions of route requests per day.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Extensive experience in object-oriented programming (ideally C++ or Go)
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing using AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with big data processing / distributed data pipelines and tools such as Apache Airflow and Spark
- Interest in Mapping technologies
Responsibilities
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best routing experience possible
- Build and deploy mission critical algorithms and services that can serve millions of requests per day (routing engine: C++, backend services: Go, Python)
- Analyze rides, understand customer pain points, prioritize and size feature requests and help design solutions based on our business needs
- Create a resilient and scalable infrastructure (cloud-based services and workflows) that enables rapid iteration
- Participate in our production on call rotation to maintain our services, ensuring their stability and reliability
Other
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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.
- Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging.
