Senior Software Engineer, Android

Lyft; Toronto; On-site; CAD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an enthusiastic app developer on the Android team! In this role, you'll contribute to building apps that delight millions of users. With a focus on excellent development practices and rapid releases, you'll work in a collaborative environment that emphasizes technical mentorship and innovation. You'll have the opportunity to implement pixel-perfect designs, extend APIs, and ensure top-notch user experiences. The company values diversity and inclusivity, offering a flexible hybrid work schedule and a range of comprehensive benefits, making it an exciting place to grow your career.

Benefits

Extended health and dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Flexible paid time off

Subsidized commuter benefits

18 weeks of paid time off for new parents

Access to Health Care Savings Account

RRSP plan for future savings

Qualifications

• 5+ years of mobile software engineering experience required.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or .NET is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical mentorship and feedback to junior engineers.
• Work within product teams to build exciting features.
• Implement unit and UI automation tests.

Skills

Mobile Software Engineering

Java

Kotlin

.NET

Unit Testing

Design Patterns

User Experience

Generalist Engineering

Job description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

You're an enthusiastic app developer looking to take your skills to the next level by joining our Android team. We build apps used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. Within the teams, backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives keep us agile and accountable. Continuous integration with automated testing allows us to run a bi-weekly release train. Our beta release process gives us useful insight into user behavior and heavy use of analytics, A/B testing and feature flagging allows for rapid iteration. With a focus on delightful user experiences, we balance building new features, refactoring code, and tweaking existing features based on analytics data. Every line of code gets reviewed by other developers, every pixel inspected by designers, and every feature hammered on by manual and automated QA.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical mentorship and feedback to junior engineers
• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Work within our product teams to build exciting features
• Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced animations
• Extend and implement our APIs
• Implement unit and UI automation tests

Experience:

• 5+ years of mobile software engineering experience
• Experience using design and architecture patterns
• Understand unit testing
• Knowledge of Java, Kotlin or .NET
• Good sense of usability and product
• Generalist engineer experience. Experience building web services, accessing data storages
• Experience pursuing side projects or open source projects.
• Shipped Android apps, available on Google Play

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits

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, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $136,000 - 170,000. 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.