Staff Software Engineer, Android

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

You’re an experienced app developer looking to solve complex problems, deliver significant impact, and ensure excellence for the Rider Android team. The Rider application is used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, scalable and reliable code architecture, and safe, rapid releases. Within our teams agile development practices keep us nimble and accountable. A/B testing, feature flagging, and heavy use of analytics gives us useful insights into user behavior, enabling us to iterate and refine experiences and products. We focus on building delightful user experiences, balancing new features and tweaking existing features to deliver tangible business value, with refactoring code and reducing technical burden to ensure efficient operations. 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:

• Work across our product teams to design, build, and release exciting features and products in the Lyft Rider application, used by millions of people every day
• Define long term roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Oversee major changes to our Android architecture
• Solve complex real-time data transfer and synchronization issues
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to deliver best in class user experience and collaborate closely with local and global colleagues
• Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced interactions, which are a joy to use
• Extend and implement our APIs
• Implement unit and UI automation tests
• Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize developer efficiency
• Mentor and support other developers on your team with code reviews, design feedback, and other advice and guidance

Experience:

• 6+ years of experience as an Android developer
• Experience with leading a technical team is a bonus
• Advanced knowledge of Java and Kotlin
• Familiarity with RxJava
• Very knowledgeable about architecture and design patterns
• Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
• Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
• Has worked collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex products
• Strong communication skills and advanced proficiency in English

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/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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 or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $176,000 - $220,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.