backend developer

• Own features from ideation and development through testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings
• Maintain and improve existing systems by identifying bottlenecks, performance issues, and inefficient resource usage across database access, caching, and messaging
• Collaborate with team members in an Agile environment and contribute to agile ceremonies
• Stay current with technology trends and bring best practices to daily work
• Write high-quality unit, integration, and functional automated tests
• Proactively identify and remediate security risks in owned components
• Review and approve code for the team’s services and suggest better approaches
• Participate in the engineering chapter or craft community by sharing learnings, best practices, and feedback
• Participate in incident response and hotfixes
• Keep documentation for owned systems up to date.

• Strong interest in Kotlin or Java
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests, and CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Kibana
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Understanding of scalable web application principles, RESTful APIs, transactions, and resiliency
• Familiarity with messaging using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Creativity and willingness to think outside the box
• Communicative, proactive, and collaborative approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Nice to have: Experience with AWS or similar cloud service providers, familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, hands-on experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows.

Freenow by Lyft operates a multi-mobility app that helps people move freely and cities thrive. The app provides access to taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport across 9 European markets and more than 180 cities.