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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 the ride sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated mid-career Android mobile engineer to join us building features for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes where quality is uncompromising, where we work on balancing and growing these unique marketplaces within the wider Lyft ecosystem and influencing driver behavior to facilitate highest-quality rides. Ownership is a key quality for this team; this person 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 they write reaches users and drives impact. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers. Preferred applicants intend to work regularly from our CDMX office, where team members collaborate together in person.
Experience:- 3+ years of professional Android development experience
- Experience in building high-performance, consumer-facing Android applications at scale
- Strong experience with Kotlin
- Experience in reactive programming with RxJava, specifically using Coroutine and Flow for asynchronous programming
- Strong understanding of clean architecture principles and maintainable code practices
- Experience in writing robust unit tests using JUnit and Mockito
- Familiar with building modern, responsive user interfaces using Jetpack Compose and declarative patterns
- Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and understanding of customer needs
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
Please submit your resume in English.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of engineering industry experience
- Experience with object-oriented programming
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience working with databases
- Ability to write clear, scalable design documentation considering technical and business tradeoffs
- Ability to design, build, and improve team-owned components
- Ability to influence teammates’ design decisions
- Ability to delegate work to other engineers with guidance
- Experience improving teams through mentorship, teaching, process improvements, and guidance creation
- Resume submitted in English
Lyft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lyft and has not been reviewed or approved by Lyft.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is provided for corporate employees, with added access to One Medical and mental‑health support for employees and dependents. Benefits materials also highlight wellness programs alongside these core plans.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 18 weeks is offered for biological, adoptive, and foster parents, and family‑building and fertility support are included. These provisions are consistently described as a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Salaried U.S. employees have unlimited PTO, and hourly employees receive a defined bank of paid time off plus observed holidays. Some reports also note sabbatical eligibility after tenure.
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What We Do
Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.
