Backed by a16z and Founders Fund.
About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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)
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.
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...
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