Software Engineer, Lyft Business
Company: Lyft
Location: San Francisco County, CA
Salary: $128k - $160k per year
Type: Full-time
Level: Junior
Posted: 2026-02-21
About this role
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.
Lyft is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer from a scope of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers.
About the Team:
The Business Travel & Lyft Pass teams
enable organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale - whether that's employees expensing business trips and earning rewards, patients accessing healthcare-compliant transportation, or transit riders connecting the first and last mile within geofenced service areas.
As a backend engineer, you'll build systems that power complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers like Concur and Expensify. This is a high-growth area for Lyft with meaningful impact potential.
Responsibilities:
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Implement tasks with good quality code leading to positive execution
- Participate in resolving ongoing incidents
- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in within your team to achieve results
Experience:
- Minimum 3 years of software engineering industry experience
- BSc/MSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience
- Experience with Python, Go.
- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team.
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision ins...