At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization
As a Lead Frontend Engineer, we expect you to build an internal tooling web application with a desire to achieve exceptional design fidelity and usability.
You will be responsible for sound technical execution of web projects through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping. These projects will require close collaboration with our product managers, product designers, data scientists, and engineering teams. You’ll be executing multiple exciting projects at once, so being able to juggle these initiatives is key. We’re also counting on you to be a champion for best frontend practices, guiding engineers, designers, and management along the way.
Please note that this role also includes participation in on-call rotations to ensure the platform’s stability and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:- Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, helping define the team’s roadmap, architecture, processes, and best practices
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code. Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactoring).
- Perform thoughtful code reviews for colleagues to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results
- Evangelize appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and occasionally give internal or external tech talks
- Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function
- Act as a mentor to other developers on the team
- Must have 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Experience in technical leadership, guiding engineering teams in architecture, best practices, and complex problem-solving
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience working with React / Next.js
- Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications
- Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer)
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design
- Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work
- Experience with SQL is a big plus
- Professional and stable working environment.
- The latest technology and equipment you need.
- 28 calendar days for vacation and up to 5 sick days.
- 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 metro area. #Remote
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