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Senior Software Engineer - Matching

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We begin by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization within our own community.

The Fulfillment group, within the Marketplace at Lyft, is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and fulfilling rider requests. The group comprises several sub-teams that generate feasible offers for riders, connect rider requests with drivers, and maintain a demand and supply lifecycle platform that powers an exceptional rideshare experience.

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 ridesharing.

Description

The Matching team at Lyft is responsible for improving how drivers are dispatched, directly impacting business-level goals like increased driver utilization and lower fulfillment costs. This team defines new modes (e.g., FastPass, W&S), tunes scoring and filtering decisions, applies geospatial (walking) and temporal (waiting) levers, and extends the time horizon for decision evaluation. If you are excited about algorithmic back-end systems and owning a mission-critical part of Lyft’s operations, this team is for you.

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.

Experience:

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience
• 5+ 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.)
• Experience with common CI tools (Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI, TeamCity), and proficiency in at least one of those tools
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases
• Ability to communicate in English in writing, meetings, and presentations
• The Matching team owns services written in Golang

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year, prorated based off of the date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offenses, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

Work Schedule: This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule—Team members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays, and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid