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About the Role
Lyft is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build systems powering complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers. This is a high-growth area with significant impact potential, focused on enabling organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale.
Responsibilities
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Explain various trade-offs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Implement tasks with good quality code leading to positive execution
- Participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in within your team to achieve results
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale
- Strong system design instincts — ability to reason through distributed systems trade-offs, identify failure modes, and choose the right architecture
- Practical experience with AI development to improve product experiences
- Hands-on experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming
- Solid foundations in relational and NoSQL databases — data modeling, query optimization, and operational considerations
- Experience in finance including expensing or travel platforms is a strong plus
- Fin Tech experience is a strong plus
- Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions in writing, in design reviews, and across teams
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Skills
- Object-oriented programming
- Relational databases
- NoSQL databases
- Data modeling
- Query optimization
- System design
- Distributed systems
- Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- AI development
Location
- San Francisco area
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-office (3 days per week)
- Remote (up to 4 weeks per year)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
Education Level
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $148,000 - $185,000
Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Discretionary paid time off (salaried) / 15 days paid time off (hourly)
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership
About the Company
- Lyft's purpose is to serve and connect.
- Cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
- Growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched.
- The Business Travel team enable organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale - whether that's employees expensing business trips and earning rewards.
Equal Opportunity
- Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.