Senior Software Engineer, Places and Search

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.

Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones. Without mapping services, none...

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Pickup, Places and Search team within the Mapping organization that is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the Rider and Driver product for the Pickup/Drop off Experience. This team supports the backbone of Lyft’s search system, supporting millions...

Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best customer experiences
Lead backend and cross functional projects to achieve long term goals as well as deliver short term roadmaps
Lead large features from idea to successful execution and launch
Own systems and components within the team and be accountable for their short term functionality and long term health
Participate in code and architecture reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well manage call rotations and proactively improving processes
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, mentoring others, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience
Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
Led a set of components or system from design to launch
It would be a huge plus to have:
Proficiency with Go and Python