Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Lyft's Pay Productivity team as a Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy payment processing capabilities, and contribute to building a reliable and cost-effective payments platform.

Requirements

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience
• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience designing, debugging and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
• Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
• Must have a track record of professional excellence

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our payment processing capabilities
• Maintain, improve, and develop tooling and systems that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our platform
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
• Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various trade-offs made in decisions
• Participate in our team's on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Help leading large projects from idea to positive execution

Benefits

• Professional and stable working environment
• The latest technology and equipment you need
• English classes with native speakers
• Potential to work remotely, including out of country (dependent on work authorizations)
• 28 calendar days for vacation and up to 5 paid days off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits