Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Lyft as a Senior Frontend Engineer and build internal tooling web applications, focusing on exceptional design and usability. You will lead technical execution through development, quality assurance, and prototyping, collaborating closely with various teams. Juggling multiple projects and championing best practices are key aspects of this role. On-call rotation is included to maintain platform stability. This position requires extensive frontend experience and leadership skills. Lyft offers a remote-friendly work environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• Must have 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience working with React / Next.js
• Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications
• Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer)
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design
• Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, helping define the team’s roadmap, architecture, processes, and best practices
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code. Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactoring)
• Perform thoughtful code reviews for colleagues to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results
• Evangelize appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and occasionally give internal or external tech talks
• Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function
• Act as a mentor to other developers on the team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with SQL

Benefits

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