Software Engineer, Backend

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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.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Writes simple, readable, reusable, and maintainable code.
  • Launches experiments, analyzes results, and determines winning variants.
  • Builds features with comprehensive tests of functionality and performance.
  • Contributes meaningful code reviews for the team.
  • Improves development at Lyft by enhancing dev tools, test coverage and/or code structure.
  • Writes technical specification documents for features.
  • Deeply understands technical details of owned features and their interactions with other systems.
  • Adds instrumentation to measure and improve reliability of their features and services.
  • Contributes to common components or libraries used at Lyft.

Experience: 

  • Mandatory:
    • Algorithms and data structures solid knowledge
    • Object oriented programming strong knowledge
    • Strong experience with relational or non-relational databases
    • Experience with any programming language (Python, Java, C#, Javascript, and Golang preferred)
    • Software architecture and design skills (design patterns, scalability, maintainability, efficiency)
  • Nice to have
    • Familiarity with Flask
    • AWS experience (EC2, Redshift for data warehouse, Elastic MapReduce for data processing)
    • Experience in microservices architecture 

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule following the establishment of a Lyft office in Mexico City — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

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