Software Engineer (Backend), Growth Platforms

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.

Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both Drivers and Riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems with distributed computing, ML, data alongside building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.

As a Software Engineer, with your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the platform offerings. Your work will have a major impact on several areas of the business.

We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs. The candidate should be able to dive deep into any problems with lots of ambiguity and build a technical solution to solve it. They should be willing to take ownership of a project or a feature and be able to drive it from design to implementation.

The Growth Platforms team owns both the Incentives & Messaging systems for Lyft. These systems determine & send the right messaging and/or incentives to the right user at the right time. We work with lyft-wide engineering teams including rider & driver side, marketing, and product management to adapt our services and the platform offerings to be able to enable growth across Lyft. You will gain comprehensive knowledge of Lyft's internal services and operations and adapt them to meet the growth needs. You will have the opportunity to improve the quality and efficiency by having optimizations via machine learning models to perform decisions at various critical aspects of the platform. 

• →Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure
• →Collaborate with engineers and partners in science & product to drive projects from inception, specification, execution, or to launch
• →Build and operate large-scale distributed systems
• →Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• →Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement / automation
• →Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• →Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
• →Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices

• 3+ years of software engineering industry experience
• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems, and/or experience with data infrastructure
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms, etc)
• Experience working with kubernetes and container technologies (e.g. Docker, cri-o, etc)
• Familiar with using Python and cloud-based environments such as AWS/GCP/Azure
• Experience with AI/ML like Model integration or using ML frameworks will be a plus