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.

The payment team at Lyft is responsible for ensuring that all our line of businesses which includes Rideshare, Transit Bike Scooter (TBS) and Fleet are able to cost effectively process payments, both, pay-ins and pay-outs. This means processing tens of billions of dollars in customer payments and driver payouts every year.

You’re an experienced app developer looking to make a big impact and help take our Android team to the next level. We build apps used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. 

• Work within our product teams to design, build, and release exciting features and products in the Lyft Driver and Rider applications, used by millions of people every day
• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Work with Product Managers, Designers, and Server 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
• Oversee major changes to our Android architecture
• Implement unit and UI automation tests
• Solve complex real-time data transfer and synchronization issues
• 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

• 3+ years of experience as an Android developer
• 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

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

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, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.