About Lyft
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.
Lyft needs experienced engineers from a breadth of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride-sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting-edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched.
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Driver Pay team that builds a platform processing payouts to drivers. We are looking for an engineer with deep expertise in system architecture, cross-team collaboration, and a proven track record of building and scaling fault-tolerant solutions in cloud environments.
In this role, you will be a technical leader on the team, collaborating closely with engineering, product, data science, analytics, testers, and AI/ML teams. You will drive programs that empower us to iterate quickly, navigating ambiguity to delight our passengers and drivers with reliable, seamless experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership & Project Delivery: Lead the end-to-end execution of complex, high-impact projects. Break down highly ambiguous goals into actionable technical plans, align cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., via tech specs), and guide multiple engineers to successful delivery.
- System Architecture: Design, build, and optimize highly available, large-scale distributed systems. Make critical architectural trade-offs that balance immediate product needs with long-term technical maintainability and scale.
- Engineering Excellence: Write well-crafted, well-tested, and highly maintainable code. Raise the engineering bar by driving rigorous code reviews, identifying areas to reduce technical debt, and driving the sunsetting of deprecated systems.
- Operational Excellence: Champion system health and long-term ownership. Lead incident resolutions, drive post-mortems, and proactively implement systemic improvements to our payout infrastructure.
- Mentorship & Culture: Actively mentor junior and mid-level engineers. Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and establishing engineering best practices that elevate the entire team.
- Business Alignment: Deeply understand the business domain of driver pay and finance protocols, unblocking and supporting internal partners to ensure technical solutions directly advance Lyft's strategic objectives.
This role is fully remote in Ukraine, however, employees are required to live and work in Ukraine in order to be qualified for this position. #Remote
Benefits:
- Professional and stable working environment.
- The latest technology and equipment you need.
- Potential to work remotely, including out of country (dependent on work authorizations).
- 28 calendar days for vacation and up to 5 paid sick days.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
- Mental health benefits.
- Family building benefits.
Experience:
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering and production infrastructure industry experience.
- Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven track record of operating as the technical lead on large projects (involving multiple engineers) from design and architecture to successful launch.
- Advanced experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, etc.) and various database technologies (relational and NoSQL).
- Demonstrated ability to tackle ambiguous problem spaces and create clarity for the broader team.
- It would be a huge plus to have related experience with pay systems, financial ledgers, or finance protocols.
- Experience with Python and AI tools would be a plus.
