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Lyft Staff Software Engineer, Android in San Francisco, California
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
You’re an experienced app developer looking to solve complex problems, deliver significant impact, and ensure excellence for the Rider Android team. The Rider application is used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, scalable and reliable code architecture, and safe, rapid releases. Within our teams agile development practices keep us nimble and accountable. A/B testing, feature flagging, and heavy use of analytics gives us useful insights into user behavior, enabling us to iterate and refine experiences and products. We focus on building delightful user experiences, balancing new features and tweaking existing features to deliver tangible business value, with refactoring code and reducing technical burden to ensure efficient operations. Every line of code gets reviewed by other developers, every pixel inspected by designers, and every feature hammered on by manual and automated QA.
Responsibilities:
Work across our product teams to design, build, and release exciting features and products in the Lyft Rider application, used by millions of people every day
Define long term roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
Oversee major changes to our Android architecture
Solve complex real-time data transfer and synchronization issues
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to deliver best in class user experience and collaborate closely with local and global colleagues
Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced interactions, which are a joy to use
Extend and implement our APIs
Implement unit and UI automation tests
Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize developer efficiency
Mentor and support other developers on your team with code reviews, design feedback, and other advice and guidance
Experience:
6+ years of experience as an Android developer
Experience with leading a technical team is a bonus
Advanced knowledge of Java and Kotlin
Familiarity with RxJava
Very knowledgeable about architecture and design patterns
Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
Has worked collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex products
Strong communication skills and advanced proficiency in English
Benefits:
Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Child care and pet benefits
401(k) plan to help save for your future
In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
Subsidized commuter benefits
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Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $ 176,000 - $220,000 . Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
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