Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
iOS Tooling
$144-180k
+ Bonus
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
+ Bonus
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
- Experience of Bazel based-projects or supporting large iOS or MacOS builds
- Strong knowledge of Swift
- Experience in building command-line tools
- Deep understanding of unit testing
- Experience maintaining a high performance CI pipeline
- Bonus: Generalist engineer experience (including but not limited to: building web services, working with various data stores, and iOS application feature development)
- Bonus: Track record of pursuing self directed side projects or open source projects
What the job involves
- Lyft’s Mobile Infrastructure teams are responsible for creating and maintaining the foundational systems that all Lyft mobile engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, polished and efficient mobile apps
- We focus on the developer experience by providing engineers with flexible tooling that allows them to innovate rapidly the customer mobile experience
- We are looking for enthusiastic engineers with experience building productivity tools for iOS by creating fast, reliable infrastructure to support the Lyft iOS team
- Work within our Mobile Infrastructure Tooling team to create and maintain foundational building blocks of our infrastructure
- Create tools and services to build and test apps quickly to make engineers more productive
- Dive into and contribute to the source code of existing tools and the open source technologies we build on
- Explore, prototype, and implement prospective tools for scaling our infrastructure such as diving deep into Bazel remote execution or investigating new platform capabilities
- Unblock and engage with the Lyft Mobile development organization
Our take
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.
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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
Leadership
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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