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 Application Foundations Team is responsible for empowering product engineers to focus on delivering business value by building the common platforms used by all developers at Lyft. We make it easy for developers to define and implement APIs between mobile clients, backend services and frontend services using Protocol Buffers. We build novel processes and tooling to reduce the cost of large scale migrations or improvements across all engineering teams at Lyft.

As an engineer on the Application Foundations, you will be responsible for building the next generation experience for developers that will save them time and cognitive load. You will partner with hundreds of engineers across the company to improve the current state of the world. You will contribute to industry leading tooling to build a seamless developer experience for Lyft engineers using cutting edge technology.

• Leverage the latest AI tools to modernize usage of RPCs by driving services toward the standard framework
• Improve and maintain the code generation pipeline that generates millions of lines of code from Protocol Buffer definitions
• Develop and refine tools and process that allows any team to seamlessly execute and track large cross-organization efforts we call Campaigns
• Build tooling to integrate database and service API schemas into one powerful developer workflow
• Keep our systems up to date with the latest best practices and tool versions
• Partner with product teams to use automation to help move them to the latest and greatest infrastructure we provide
• Own projects and features from design to successful execution to deliver value to Lyft engineers

• 3+ years of software engineering industry experience with proven track record of impactful work
• Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
• Strong experience with a backend language; extra points for Python or Go
• Familiarity with RPC schemas such as Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Avro or Thrift
• Familiarity with developing in container-based environment such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Take pride in reducing technical debt; your attention to small details and keeping code/configuration clean and maintainable is something you value
• History of going out of your way to help out your fellow engineer to make them more productive

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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 New York City area is $128,000-$160,000. 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.