Lyft-posted 10 days ago
$176,000 - $220,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • San Francisco, CA
1,001-5,000 employees

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. About the Team The Risk Tech engineering organization is dedicated to tangibly reducing accident frequency, saving lives, and controlling costs to make rides safer & more affordable. Claim Management is a core financial function for Lyft. Each claim touches complex workflows, multiple stakeholders, sensitive data, reserves, regulatory processes, and large financial liabilities. This role is an opportunity to shape an industry-leading claims management system. Our vision is to establish a single, Unified Risk Platform where end-to-end claims workflows across all business lines are efficiently managed, communications are consolidated, and data is organized for data-driven intelligence. This enables cost-efficient claims operations, drives down risks and costs as Lyft scales, and ensures people receive the help they need quickly and accurately. About the Role We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and lead the development of a highly reliable, scalable, and intelligent Risk Management Information System that powers our insurance platform. You will collaborate with passionate colleagues from backend, frontend, data, product, mobile, and operations to deliver end-to-end solutions.

  • Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems, aligning priorities with Product, Operations, Science, and other stakeholders.
  • Provide architectural leadership, make informed design tradeoffs, and guide strategic platform decisions across multiple engineering teams.
  • Deliver scalable, reliable, and well-tested solutions, writing maintainable code and raising engineering standards
  • Collaborate closely with internal claims operation teams, external insurance partners, and cross-functional engineering groups to ensure technical alignment and scalable integrations.
  • Drive platform innovation through AI adoption and automation.
  • Mentor team members within and outside of the team
  • Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
  • Lead code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.
  • Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
  • B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant work experience
  • 8+ years of professional experience building scale distributed systems with high availability, observability and reliability requirements
  • Proven ability to build end-to-end products and platforms, collaborating effectively with backend, frontend, data, operations, and product teams.
  • Strong ability to reason about tradeoffs in system design, architecture, domain modeling, and operational cost.
  • Proficiency in Python.
  • Experience with data processing frameworks and tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow and cloud provisioning environments etc
  • Strong oral and written interpersonal skills
  • Prior experience in insurance, claims management, or workflow orchestration is a strong plus.
  • Prior experience in Insurance, Claims management, Workflow orchestration is a strong plus.
  • Experience driving AI adoption or automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
  • Knowledge of React/Next.js is a plus.
  • 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
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