Software Engineer

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

As an Android Engineer on the Scheduled Team, you will build new, differentiated products that improve riders’ and drivers’ experience with rideshare and make it easy to choose Lyft every time. Your role will be essential in ensuring Lyft’s premium planned-rides offering is both dependable and a delightful user experience. The team collaborates closely with product, design, marketing to deliver business-critical initiatives and exciting new use cases.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our Driver and Rider applications
• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
• Collaborate with product org stakeholders to execute on projects
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
• The work responsibilities of this role are expected to take place during business hours in your local Time Zone.

Experience:

• Minimum 1 - 3 years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience with Kotlin
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, declarative UI development, and creating shared components
• Familiarity with current design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc).
• Experience with architecture paradigms like unidirectional and reactive programming
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team.

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offenses, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

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, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid