Junior Software Engineer, Luxury

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.

The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated senior software engineer to join us building features for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes where quality is uncompromising, where we work on balancing and growing these unique marketplaces within the wider Lyft ecosystem and influencing driver behavior to facilitate highest-quality rides. Ownership is a key quality for this team; this person should be 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. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers. Preferred applicants intend to work regularly from our CDMX office, where team members collaborate together in person.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health.

• Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks.

• Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team.

• Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issue root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond.

• Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities.

• Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence.

• Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community.

Experience:

• 5+ years engineering industry experience

• Experience with object-oriented programming, distributed systems, 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, and 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

Please submit your resume in English.

Department: Global Growth Tech