Android Engineer, Global Growth at Lyft

<p class="p3"></p> <p>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. You’ll be joining the Global Growth team.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Keep up-to-date with Android and industry developments</li> <li>Build great UX for millions of users</li> <li>Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to build complex features and products from idea to positive execution</li> <li>Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code</li> <li>Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation</li> <li>Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices</li> <li>Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms</li> <li>Participate in code, product and design reviews to provide feedback to ensure best practices</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Experience:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>3+ years of software engineering industry experience</li> <li>Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications</li> <li>Experience with Kotlin. Java experience is nice-to-have but not required.</li> <li>Experience with architecture paradigms like unidirectional and reactive programming, and other patterns commonly used in the industry</li> <li>Experience with Jetpack Compose, unit and snapshot testing, and creating shared components</li> <li>Great product sense; you care about usability and good design</li> <li>Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team</li> <li>Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects</li> </ul> <p class="p3"></p>