# Senior Software Engineer, Forecasting & Real-Time Optimization

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. Marketplace teams are at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both drivers and riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems with distributed computing for ML and forecasting models, and finding patterns and insights in real-world data while building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment. The Forecasting and Real-Time Optimization Platform (FORTOP) team in Lyft’s Rideshare Experience & Marketplace (REM) org provides reliable, real-time market supply and demand signals and forecasts that power the systems making critical automated decisions for Lyft’s business. These signals feed many of Lyft’s most important marketplace products, including Dynamic Pricing, Real-Time Supply Management, Fulfillment, and more. As a Senior Soft

- **Id**: 3981888
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lyft-senior-software-engineer-forecasting-real-time-optimization-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:25:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T20:00:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7043
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Shared Mobility, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 234
- **Name**: Lyft
- **Domain**: lyft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lyft>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.462
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136160
- **Max**: 170200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170200

## Technologies

- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T20:00:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 101 · green card filings: 46; Filings 12m: 101

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:25:21Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170200
- **Is top pay**: no

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