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.
Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers from a variety 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.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will lead work streams to improve business operations in Lyft’s Marketplace. You'll design AI driven data analytics platforms, data pipelines and metric governance systems that our business leaders use on a daily basis to make key strategic decisions. You will partner with business leaders and data scientists across our organizations to enable running the business more efficiently.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
- Drive AI innovation for business analytics and operations
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Lead projects from idea to positive execution
- Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
Experience:
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience with a high level programming language (bonus points for experience with Python or Go)
- AI Experience in Agentic workflows, Model Evaluation, Causal models and Anomaly detection
- When facing a problem that's poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly learn what you need to dig in, make sense of the problem, and start working towards a solution
- You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your teammates' goals and priorities
- You have experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- You have a history of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer to make them more productive
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits