Software Engineer, Fulfillment Core Services

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.

Core Services powers the passenger and driver state machines from request and accept through drop-off and payment completion. The team enables a multitude of ride variations like autonomous vehicles, taxis, scheduled, business concierge, health and more. The “Core Services” are a suite of distributed Python and Golang systems central to Lyft’s backend.

As a software engineer on the team, you will work on integrating new rider and driver products and features onto the state machine and enhancing the performance and reliability of ride state transitions. If you are excited about solving back‑end distributed systems problems and owning a mission‑critical part of Lyft’s operations, this team is for you.

As a software engineer at Lyft, you will collaborate with other engineers and cross‑functional teams, such as product, data science, and analytics, to lead and execute large projects—from concept to efficient execution. We are looking for a motivated Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging technical problems and excited to work in a fast‑paced, innovative, and cross‑functional environment. In this role, you will tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ride sharing.

Key traits for success include being passionate about Lyft’s business and product, a quick learner, a collaborative mindset, and an eagerness to drive initiatives both within and across teams. You'll be joining a small, close‑knit team with passionate, collaborative co‑workers.

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of the Fulfillment tech stack
• Write well‑crafted, well‑tested, readable, maintainable code
• Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Lead projects from idea to positive execution
• Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents
• Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy‑in across teams to achieve results
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• 2+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Proficiency in object‑oriented programming
• Experience designing, debugging and running fault‑tolerant, highly available, large‑scale distributed systems
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• Proficiency in scripting languages to use APIs to automate manual processes
• Experience with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, Circle
  
  CI, Team City), and proficiency in at least one of those tools
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational and No
  
  SQL databases
• Ability to communicate in English in writing, meetings, and presentations
• Fulfillment owns services written in Golang and Python

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

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…