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About the role
Marketplace teams are at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both drivers and riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience, including building and operating backend or data systems in production
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
- Experience designing and leading delivery of large-scale distributed systems, and owning their reliability through monitoring, on-call, and incident response
- Solid distributed systems fundamentals: fault tolerance, delivery semantics, and consistency tradeoffs
- Track record of leading ambiguous, multi-engineer projects and mentoring other engineers
- Clear written communication, including design docs that align stakeholders
More about this role
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.
Marketplace teams are at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both drivers and riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems with distributed computing for ML and forecasting models, and finding patterns and insights in real-world data while building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.
The Forecasting and Real-Time Optimization Platform (FORTOP) team in Lyft’s Rideshare Experience & Marketplace (REM) org provides reliable, real-time market supply and demand signals and forecasts that power the systems making critical automated decisions for Lyft’s business. These signals feed many of Lyft’s most important marketplace products, including Dynamic Pricing, Real-Time Supply Management, Fulfillment, and more.
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