Senior Backend Engineer, Lyft
Telematics
$144-180k
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a seasoned engineer with a passion for innovation, high-volume data pipelines, microservices, working in cross-disciplinary environments and possess the skills to ensure the ongoing maintenance and improvement of services, you will thrive on our team!
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems
- Experience and/or interest in running large batch processing jobs with Spark or other large scale compute architectures
- Experience and/or interest in Library development
- Experience and/or interest in serving, versioning, monitoring ML models in production environments
- Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- Experience with S3, Spark, Presto, Parquet
- You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your cross-functional teammates' goals and priorities
- You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our Telematics team
- At Lyft, Telematics data is used to make Lyft safer by reducing accident risk, which in turn also makes Lyft more affordable for riders and a better way to earn a living for drivers
- The Telematics team acts as a platform team that processes vast amounts of high-frequency ride data, serving our Telematics ML models (e.g. harsh braking, harsh acceleration, etc.) and deriving insights for partner teams
- In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering (mobile, server and data), machine learning and data science, actuarial science on building industry-leading innovations that make Lyft safer by reducing the frequency and severity of accidents on the platform
- Be a champion of the team’s safety and affordability mission by serving as a reliable source of risk insights for other teams at the company
- Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability
- Work cross-functionally with Data Scientists to productionize models to derive safety insights from Telematics data, driving the team’s industry-leading innovation in this space
- Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment
- Take a lead role in the ongoing maintenance of our Telematics systems, ensuring their stability and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine the roadmap for Telematics projects
- Utilize your expertise in Python, AWS, Spark, SQL, etc. to deliver robust and scalable solutions
- Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events
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
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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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