Software Engineer, Server - Rider Pay
Lyft is a company dedicated to serving and connecting communities, and they are seeking a Software Engineer for their Rider Pay team. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and enhance payment systems that provide financial benefits to riders, ensuring seamless transactions and a positive user experience.
Responsibilities
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Participate in our teams oncall rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms
- Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participate in AI-augmented development workflows for code review, testing, and documentation
- Contribute to reusable platform capabilities to transition from product-by-product solutioning to scalable, config-driven infrastructure
Skills
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with Python, Go
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming
- Experience working with data structures or algorithms
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Participate in our teams oncall rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms
- Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participate in AI-augmented development workflows for code review, testing, and documentation
- Contribute to reusable platform capabilities to transition from product-by-product solutioning to scalable, config-driven infrastructure
- Experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects
- Experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to improve developer productivity
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits
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