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 Dispatch team is at the heart of our product functionality and decision-making processes. We are responsible for fulfilling ride requests through efficiently dispatching the most suitable drivers. Additionally, we play a crucial role in empowering various essential components of Lyft by making them more predictive and adaptive to marketplace changes. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving distributed system problems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment.

As an engineer in the Dispatch team, you will not only develop and enhance our large-scale dispatch platform, but also work closely with across-functional partners like data scientists and product managers to improve algorithms and iterate on products continuously. 

• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Be responsible for, design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Incorporate considerations for business context, failure modes, monitoring, compliance, and security in your work
• Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents and on-call support
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• 2+ years of software engineering/production industry experience
• Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• Experience writing clear and scalable design documentation

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

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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 or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  

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.

The expected range of pay for this position in the New York City Area is $139,500 - $155,000. 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.