About the position
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones. Without mapping services, none of these real world interactions between people and transport can happen. The Mapping organization at Lyft has spent the last few years building up Lyft’s mapping assets and capabilities by combining many internal and external data sources and services into an increasingly powerful and mission-critical technology stack. In doing so, we’ve also enabled new user experiences and features across all of Lyft’s products, including rideshare industry leading firsts like CarPlay, Android Auto, and real-time driver feedback! We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Mapping experiences team that builds end user features to enhance drivers and riders experience on Lyft’s platform by using our in house navigation system. We are looking for an engineer with expertise in system architecture, cross team collaboration, team leadership, and experience in building scalable solutions in cloud environments. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences.
Responsibilities
- Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best customer experiences
- Lead backend and cross functional project teams to achieve long term goals as well as deliver short term roadmaps
- Be a role model for the team for engineering excellence and customer obsession
- Lead large features from idea to successful execution and launch
- Own systems and components within the team and be accountable for their short term functionality and long term health
- Enable collaboration across multiple teams and functions to deliver on cross-team initiatives while delegating ownership and uplifting those around you
- Participate in code and architecture reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well manage call rotations and proactively improving processes
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, mentoring others, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Requirements
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience
- 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 working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Led a set of components or system from design to launch
- Led team to deliver large projects or achieve long term goals
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 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
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
