Backend Software Engineer Intern – Real-Time Impact

Socotra, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Mental health benefits

2 days paid time off and 3 days sick时间

401(k)

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Lyft Pink

Job summary

Lyft in San Francisco is seeking interns to work with top engineers on user-facing products, gaining hands-on experience from day one. The role offers autonomy, collaboration in-office, and the chance to ship features that affect drivers and riders.

You'll contribute to testing, refactor code, and participate in reviews while learning CS fundamentals and real-time systems. Summer 2027 availability is required, with a hybrid schedule in the office three days a week.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience with databases
• Experience solving real-time technology problems
• Experience with mobile development

Responsibilities

• Own your project, while checking in with other team members throughout the day with questions and updates
• Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactor)
• Value reliability, ensured by testing (unit, integration and load tests)
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Go home knowing that your work today is meaningfully improving the lives of every Lyft driver and every Lyft passenger

Skills

CS fundamentals

Unit testing

Testing knowledge

Communication skills

Open source contributions

Databases

Mobile development

Real-time problems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (graduation 2027-2028)

Job description

Lyft in San Francisco is seeking interns to work with top engineers on user-facing products, gaining hands-on experience from day one. The role offers autonomy, collaboration in-office, and the chance to ship features that affect drivers and riders.

You'll contribute to testing, refactor code, and participate in reviews while learning CS fundamentals and real-time systems. Summer 2027 availability is required, with a hybrid schedule in the office three days a week.