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.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our MapXP team at Lyft. This team is responsible for creating user-facing mapping experiences, ensuring the presence of excellent mapping products and features across Lyft’s apps. They also enable other teams to utilize maps more effectively and with greater ease. The primary challenges the MapXP team addresses include:
- Reducing Lyft’s reliance on Google Maps by developing and scaling our own internally-built mapping experiences
- Creating mapping and navigation products tailored specifically to the needs of Lyft and its users
- Enabling Lyft to control routing from the start to the end of rides
- Enhancing the safety and efficiency of driver navigation compared to current solutions
- Improving the user experience of pickups and drop-offs, especially around venues
Responsibilities:
- Keep up-to-date with iOS 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
- Provide technical mentorship and feedback to junior engineers
- Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
Experience:
- Worked on and shipped large scale iOS applications
- Experience writing Swift
- Experience with architecture paradigms like unidirectional and reactive programming, and other patterns commonly used in the industry
- Experience with SwiftUI, 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, experience with unidirectional data-flow and reactive programming
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 days off
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
This role is fully remote in Ukraine, candidates for this role must be based in the Ukraine.