Senior Software Engineer, Lyft Business

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

The Fulfillment group, in Marketplace, at Lyft is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and reliably fulfilling rider requests. The group has a few sub teams that are responsible for generating feasible offers for riders, connecting rider requests with drivers to fulfill those offers and a demand and supply lifecycle platform that power great rideshare experience.

As a software engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other software engineers and cross functions like product, data science and analytics to lead and execute large projects from idea  to efficient execution. We're looking for a motivated Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging technical problems and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative and cross-functional environment where they will take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing.

• →Contribute to the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• →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 
• →Build Features from tech specification to positive execution
• →Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents 
• →Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results
• →Share your knowledge by giving brown bags and tech talks

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• 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.)
• Experience with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, TeamCity), and proficiency in at least one of those tools
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases
• Ability to communicate in English in writing, meeting and presentations