Software Engineer, Android

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. You’ll be joining the Driver Loyalty & Rewards team, which is focused on creating meaningful value for drivers every time they drive. We build features that recognize, reward, and strengthen drivers’ connection to the platform, making their driving experience more engaging and rewarding.

You're an enthusiastic app developer looking to take your skills to the next level by joining our Android team. We build apps used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. Within the teams, backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives keep us agile, and accountable. Continuous integration with automated testing allows us to run a bi-weekly release train. Our beta release process gives us useful insight into user behavior and heavy use of analytics, A/B testing and feature flagging allows for rapid iteration. With a focus on delightful user experiences, we balance building new features, refactoring code, and tweaking existing features based on analytics data. 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:

• Keep up-to-date with Android and industry developments
• Build great UX for millions of users
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex features and products from idea to positive execution
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code
• Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms
• Participate in code, product and design reviews to provide feedback to ensure best practices

Experience:

• 3+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
• Experience with Kotlin. Java experience is nice-to-have but not required.
• Experience with architecture paradigms like unidirectional and reactive programming, and other patterns commonly used in the industry
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, unit and snapshot testing, and creating shared components
• Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team
• Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects

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
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

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 M