Staff Software Engineer, AV

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft needs experienced engineers from a wide range of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. We are looking for an expert software engineer to join the team. We are looking for engineers with a passion for building platforms that empower product teams to iterate fast. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, helping define the team’s roadmap, architecture, processes, and best practices
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code. Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactoring).
• Perform thoughtful code reviews for colleagues to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
• Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results.
• Evangelize appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and occasionally give internal or external tech talks.
• Act as a mentor to other developers on the team.
• Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function.

Experience:

• Must have 6+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React
• Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications
• Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer)
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design
• Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work
• Experience working with Twilio Flex is not a must but a plus!
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
• Design, build and improve a set of team owned components

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

*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, 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

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $172,000-$237,000. 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.