Lyft Urban Solution team is developing the future of micro-mobility and we are looking for a solid, experienced Software Engineer to join our Stations Software Platform team to work on helping us transition our customers to our latest generation platform and to make the platform evolve in a solution that can be brought to multiple different markets and business models.
While technical interviews and interactions with teams outside Montreal will primarily be in English, our vibrant working environment here in Montreal is fully bilingual.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
- 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
- Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work
- 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
- See the direct impact of your work on the efficiency of our operating teams and the experience of Lyft riders.
Experience:
- 3+ years of software engineering industry
- Experience with object-oriented programming (bonus points for Python or Go)
- Experience in distributed systems (eg: kubernetes, gRPC)
- Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components
- Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
- Culture of investigating and solving problems outside of your expertise
- Culture of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer
- Must be fluent in spoken and written English and have a working proficiency in French
