Software Engineer, Android

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.

We’re hiring multiple Android software engineers in our Rider and Community Safety organizations:

• The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. As an Android Engineer for Rider, you will focus on incentivizing riders to prefer Lyft by building differentiated features for specific use-cases like travel, commute & social and integrating strategic partners into the Lyft rideshare ecosystem.
  
• The Community Safety organization is responsible for ensuring the trust & safety of our community of riders and drivers. We work every day toward building a trusted community, fostering safe interactions, managing unsafe situations, and providing best-in-class support. As a member of our Community Safety team, you will play a critical role in making transportation safer for all.

As an Android engineer at Lyft, you will work hand in hand with various teams, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to improve our customers’ experience with rideshare.

Responsibilities:

• Keep up-to-date with Android 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

Experience:

• Minimum 3+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications
• Experience with Kotlin. Java experience is nice-to-have but not required.
• Experience with architecture paradigms like unidirectional and reactive programming, and other patterns commonly used in the industry
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, 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

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

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 Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - $149,000. 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.