Software Engineer

About the company

• Lyft aims to serve and connect by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and can thrive.

About the team

• The Business Travel team enables organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale.
• Build systems that power complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers like Concur and Expensify.

Responsibilities

• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code.
• Explain the 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale.
• Strong system design instincts — reasoning through distributed systems trade-offs, identifying failure modes.
• 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, operational considerations.
• Experience in finance including expensing or travel platforms is a strong plus.
• FinTech experience is a strong plus.
• Clear communicator.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Conditions

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Child care and pet benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• 12 observed holidays plus discretionary paid time off.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Subsidized commuter benefits.
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
• Hybrid schedule: 3 days per week in office (Mon, Wed, Thu).