At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. Lyft is a global ecosystem of dynamic workplaces. We have an ambitious goal to strengthen our international presence by growing a life-changing product, and your efforts will play an essential role in our collective success.

We are looking for experienced backend software engineers to join our Payment engineering team. The payments team is responsible for ensuring that all Lyft products are able to reliably and 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. The team also builds platform capabilities to support innovative payment products, some of the recent ones include billing platform, Lyft Cash, Lyft Direct, Subscriptions and several others. Further, the team manages relationships with our 3rd party payment processors, co-brand partners and gift card program. 

Our software engineers will be collaborating with teams in products, data science, payment operations, and external payment partners to design, develop and maintain highly scalable payment services on the cloud. 

• Help establish roadmaps and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Lead large projects from idea to launch
• Write documents to communicate system design, launch, and share knowledge
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations
• Unblock, support, and communicate with internal and external partners to achieve results

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Proficient in object-oriented programming
• Sold knowledge of distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases. 
• Experienced with cloud computing platform
• Led a set of components from design to launch 
• Ability to communicate in English in writing, meeting and presentations.

• 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 San Francisco is $132,000 - $150,000. 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.