Civil Engineer

Lyft; Edison (NJ); Remote; USD 73,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits package

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a junior Civil Engineer to deploy production code that reaches a massive audience. This remote role is anchored to Edison, NJ, with a salary range of $73,000 to $102,000 and a mentorship-driven environment.

You will own outcomes, not just tasks, and contribute to fast, impactful engineering work. Join Lyft to grow professionally in a fast-paced setting, with a benefits package and the freedom to grow on your terms in Edison.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action.
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level.

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.
• Spike a Tailwind CSS proof of concept fast when Lyft needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Reverse-engineer the learning-obsessed Linux format Lyft inherited and never documented.
• Ship Work Ethic experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks.
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Lyft can explain.
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Java.

Skills

Time management

Presentation skills

Growth mindset

Bias toward action

Stakeholder management

Tools

Nginx

Job description

This remote Civil Engineer position is your opportunity to deploy production code that reaches a massive audience. Bring 1 years to this NJ Civil Engineer job and Lyft answers with $73,000 - $102,000 and a runway that keeps unrolling.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerting for scrappy-but-steady production environments
• Spike a Tailwind CSS proof of concept fast when Lyft needs a yes-or-no answer
• Reverse-engineer the learning-obsessed Linux format Lyft inherited and never documented
• Ship Work Ethic experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Lyft can explain
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Java

What You'll Bring

• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
• Comfort with a Lyft pace that rarely sits still
• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat

Run from a single floor in Edison, NJ, Lyft is an unfussy reminder that technology breakthroughs still start small. Every Civil Engineer at Lyft owns an outcome, not just a checklist of tasks.

You bring the Nginx; we bring $73,000 - $102,000, a mentor, a benefits package, and the freedom to grow on your terms in Edison.

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