You love writing code and solving problems all day. You’re excited about applying your development skills to crafting technology that delights users. You care about the end result. You’re willing and able to express your opinions clearly and passionately. You ideally have broad experience with technology, including different server languages, frameworks and databases. You’re excited to learn new technologies quickly and enjoy finding efficient and elegant solutions to complex problems. You are comfortable working closely on a team with other passionate developers.
THE PROBLEMS YOU’LL BE SOLVING:
- Race conditions in a real-time server environment
- Complex, predictive matching algorithms with machine learning
- Custom recruitment, onboarding and scheduling tools
- Integration with 3rd party services for identity, payment, notifications and monitoring
- Optimizing data layout in a schema-less database environment
WHAT YOUR DAY WILL LOOK LIKE:
- Brief daily meeting to sync with small cross-functional team (scrum)
- Go off and crank on your project, checking in with other team members throughout the day with questions and updates
- You leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactor)
- You value reliability, ensured by automated testing (unit, integration and load tests)
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Go home knowing that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Lyft driver and every Lyft passenger