Backend Software Engineer, All Teams

<p>At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To accomplish this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.</p> <p>Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers from a scope of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs</li> <li>Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code</li> <li>Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge</li> <li>Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices</li> <li>Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution</li> <li>Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Experience:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>5+ years of software engineering industry experience</li> <li>Experience with object-oriented programming</li> <li>Experience in distributed systems</li> <li>Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL</li> <li>Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation</li> <li>Design, build and improve a set of team owned components</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits:</h2> <ul> <li>Public Transportation allowance</li> <li>Mental health benefits</li> <li>Family building benefits</li> <li>25 vacation days annually</li> <li>18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible</li> </ul>