Software Engineer, New Drivers

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.

We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our New Drivers team that focuses on making the onboarding process faster and more seamless, creating capabilities to prioritize quality applicants for even faster approval as well as supporting high priority initiatives at Lyft, such as International Expansion, AVs etc. 

We are looking for an engineer with proven expertise in system architecture, cross-functional collaboration and experience in building scalable solutions in the cloud environments.

In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on building rideshare experiences that delight millions of riders and drivers. 

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best onboarding experience. 
• Build and deploy mission critical services that can scale well (backend services: Go, Python)
• Independently responsible for features or projects relative to advancing the team’s goals and priorities. 
• Understand customer needs, write documents to communicate system design, drive cross-functional collaboration and own project deliverables.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, production on-call support and incident triaging process.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code

Experience

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Extensive experience in object-oriented programming (ideally Python or Go)
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing using AWS, GCP or Azure
• Nice-to-have: Prior experience in highly collaborative product team
• Nice-to-have: Experience building microservice-based architectures
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to uplift others
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in distributed teams spread across time zones. (US and Europe) 

Please submit your resume in English.