Senior Software Engineer in Test, Lyft
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- 5+ years of hands-on industry experience as an SDET, developer, or strong Automation Engineer
- Proficiency in Java/Kotlin or Swift for mobile platforms, as well as Python/Go for API tests
- Familiarity with Espresso/XCUItest is strongly desired
- Experience in building automation frameworks and writing reliable, scalable, and reusable automated tests
- Have worked on mobile platform and have a very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot the testing ecosystem
- Hands-on experience developing and documenting test plans and reporting bugs for complex features
- Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation, balancing short-term and long-term priorities
What the job involves
- Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers with an emphasis on quality, testing, and test automation
- We are growing our team with people who will help ensure the high quality of our software engineering practices and the resulting experiences of the millions of riders and drivers who use our apps to get where they’re going and earn money
- You will collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers, quality assurance teams, product managers, and more in order to make it easy to catch and fix bugs before production
- You’ll also help set the quality strategy and automation roadmap for your team, guiding the work of other SETs and improving tools and practices across Lyft
- Test complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems
- Collaborate with product teams to understand the testing needs, identify test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and design test automation
- Help establish automation roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
- Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing automated tests
- Maintain existing UI and API tests, monitor failures and report bugs
- Build and maintain systems to monitor test stability and report stability issues back to engineers
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting engineering and quality best practices
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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