Software Engineer, Backend

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Responsibilities:

• Writes simple, readable, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Launches experiments, analyzes results, and determines winning variants.
• Builds features with comprehensive tests of functionality and performance.
• Contributes meaningful code reviews for the team.
• Improves development at Lyft by enhancing dev tools, test coverage and/or code structure.
• Writes technical specification documents for features.
• Deeply understands technical details of owned features and their interactions with other systems.
• Adds instrumentation to measure and improve reliability of their features and services.
• Contributes to common components or libraries used at Lyft.

Experience: 

• Mandatory:
  • Algorithms and data structures solid knowledge
  • Object oriented programming strong knowledge
  • Strong experience with relational or non-relational databases
  • Experience with any programming language (Python, Java, C#, Javascript, and Golang preferred)
  • Software architecture and design skills (design patterns, scalability, maintainability, efficiency)
• Nice to have
  • Familiarity with Flask
  • AWS experience (EC2, Redshift for data warehouse, Elastic MapReduce for data processing)
  • Experience in microservices architecture 

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule following the establishment of a Lyft office in Mexico City — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

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