Android Engineer, Luxury

Lyft; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyft in Mexico City is seeking a motivated mid-career Android mobile engineer to build app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Lyft and Alcove. You will focus on high-performance, consumer-facing Android apps, using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and reactive programming to deliver quality features to riders and drivers.

You will collaborate across engineering, product, data science, and operations, own parts of the roadmap, write tests, participate in code reviews, and help drive projects from

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Android development experience.
• Strong Kotlin background and Android UI at scale.
• Deep understanding of clean architecture and maintainable code.
• Experience with RxJava, Coroutine and Flow for async programming.
• Proficient with Jetpack Compose and declarative UI patterns.
• Experience writing robust tests using JUnit and Mockito.

Responsibilities

• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and customer needs.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Share knowledge through brown bags, tech talks, and best practices.
• Lead large projects from idea to positive execution.
• Unblock and communicate with internal partners to achieve results.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Reactive programming

Jetpack Compose

Unit testing

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Job description

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.

The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for premium ground transportation. We’re looking for a motivated mid-career Android mobile engineer to build app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes in the Lyft app, as well as Alcove, Lyft’s new global chauffeur network. Alcove brings high-touch service to corporate travel programs and their passengers, handling everything from VIP travel to large events and multi-vehicle trips. Across all of it, quality is uncompromising. We work on balancing and growing these unique marketplaces and influencing driver and chauffeur behavior to facilitate the highest-quality rides.

Ownership is a key quality for this team; this person should be driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code they write reaches users and drives impact.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations teams across Lyft and Alcove on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers, bookers, drivers, and chauffeurs. Preferred applicants intend to work regularly from our CDMX office, where team members collaborate together in person.

Experience:

• 3+ years of professional Android development experience
• Experience in building high-performance, consumer-facing Android applications at scale
• Strong experience with Kotlin
• Experience in reactive programming with RxJava, specifically using Coroutine and Flow for asynchronous programming
• Strong understanding of clean architecture principles and maintainable code practices
• Experience in writing robust unit tests using JUnit and Mockito
• Familiar with building modern, responsive user interfaces using Jetpack Compose and declarative patterns

Responsibilities:

• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and understanding of customer needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results