Software Engineer, Core Services

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

The Core Services team within Fulfillment provides the functionality needed to create, update and track demand and supply lifecycles, which power the Lyft rider and driver clients.

As a Software Engineer on the Core Services team, you will work on enhancing the performance and reliability of the tech stack, simplifying and platformizing the tech stack to enable faster product iteration and contribute to Lyft’s business critical matching execution initiatives.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of the core services tech stack
2. Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
3. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
4. Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
5. Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
6. Unblock, support, and communicate with internal partners to achieve results

Experience:

1. 2+ years of software engineering industry experience working on distributed systems and microservices
2. BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
3. Experience with object-oriented programming
4. Experience working with distributed systems
5. Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
6. Experience writing clear and scalable design documentation
7. Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components

Benefits:

1. Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
2. Mental health benefits
3. Family building benefits
4. In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
5. 401(k) plan to help save for your future
6. 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
7. Pre-tax commuter benefits
8. Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Seattle area is $124,000 - $155,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.