Senior Software Engineer, Lyft Business

About the Team

The Business Travel team enables organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale—whether that's employees expensing business trips or earning rewards.

As a backend engineer, you'll build systems that power complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers like Concur and Expensify.

Responsibilities

• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Explain the various trade-offs made in architectural and technical decisions
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Implement tasks with good quality code leading to positive execution
• Participate in resolving ongoing incidents
• Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in within your team to achieve results

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale
• Strong system design instincts—reason through distributed systems trade-offs, identify failure modes, and choose the right architecture for the problem
• Practical experience with AI development to improve product experiences
• Hands-on experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming; experience with the languages and frameworks used in our stack is a plus
• Solid foundations in relational and NoSQL databases—data modeling, query optimization, and operational considerations
• Experience in finance including expensing or travel platforms is a strong plus
• FinTech experience is a strong plus
• Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions in writing, in design reviews, and across teams
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Work Arrangement

This role is on a hybrid schedule, expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.