Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Lyft Lyft · Consumer · Mexico · Lyft Business

Lyft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to drive high-impact projects, innovate new solutions, and lead large features from idea to launch. The role involves writing well-crafted code, participating in code reviews, managing project priorities, and being part of the on-call rotation. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience, proficiency in Python and Go, and a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience.
  2. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch
  3. Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
  4. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
  5. Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience
  • Experience with Python, Go
  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming
  • Experience working with data structures or algorithms

Nice to have

  • experience pursuing side projects or open-source project