Job description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for premium ground transportation. We’re looking for a motivated Staff Engineer to build app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes in the Lyft app, as well as Alcove , Lyft’s new global chauffeur network. Alcove brings high-touch service to corporate travel programs and their passengers, handling everything from VIP travel to large events and multi-vehicle trips. Across both, quality is uncompromising. Ownership is a key quality for this team; you should be driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code you write reaches users and drives impact. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, and driving cross-functional alignment and engineering excellence across Lyft’s luxury and chauffeur offerings. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations teams across Lyft and Alcove on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers, bookers, drivers, and chauffeurs. Responsibilities: Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health. Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team. Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issue root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities. Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence. Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community. Experience: 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership. Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making. Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems. Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level. Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o). Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 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 with company match 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 Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. 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, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. 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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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health.
Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks.
Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team.
Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities.
Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence.
Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community.
8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.
Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making.
Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level.
Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o).
Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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