Software Engineer, Lyft
Dispatch
$139.5-155k
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$139.5-155k
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- 2+ years of software engineering/production industry experience
- Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with object-oriented programming
- Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Experience writing clear and scalable design documentation
What the job involves
- The Dispatch team is at the heart of our product functionality and decision-making processes
- We are responsible for fulfilling ride requests through efficiently dispatching the most suitable drivers
- Additionally, we play a crucial role in empowering various essential components of Lyft by making them more predictive and adaptive to marketplace changes
- We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving distributed system problems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment
- As an engineer in the Dispatch team, you will not only develop and enhance our large-scale dispatch platform, but also work closely with across-functional partners like data scientists and product managers to improve algorithms and iterate on products continuously
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Be responsible for, design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Incorporate considerations for business context, failure modes, monitoring, compliance, and security in your work
- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents and on-call support
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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