Sr Software Engineer, Luxury

Lyft Lyft · Consumer · Mexico · Global Growth Tech

Senior Software Engineer for Lyft's Luxury team, focusing on building and improving features for premium ride-sharing services. This role involves roadmap and architecture establishment, writing high-quality code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. The focus is on delivering impactful features within the existing Lyft ecosystem.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and understanding of customer needs
  2. Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
  3. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
  4. Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
  5. Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
  6. Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years engineering industry experience
  • Experience with object-oriented programming
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Experience working with databases
  • Write clear, scalable design documentation considering tradeoffs from a technical and business perspective
  • Design, build, and improve a set of team-owned components
  • influence teammates’ design decisions
  • Delegate work to other engineers with guidance to set them up for success
  • Improve your team through mentorship, teaching, process improvements, creating guidance

What the JD emphasized

  • quality is uncompromising
  • Ownership is a key quality for this team
  • driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond
  • taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code they write reaches users and drives impact