Software Engineer, Android

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 Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution. As an Android Engineer for Rider, you will work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation to improve riders' 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
• 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.

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $98,400 - $135,000 CAD. 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.