Description
Our technology team is growing, and we want a Data Scientist who can turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable software. This junior opening gives you $46,000 - $73,000, hands-on ownership, and the mentorship to keep growing in technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
- Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
- Tune LangChain queries until the IL database stops timing out under load
- Defend Lyft uptime through the 2 a.m. Peoria pages nobody volunteers for
- Translate a napkin idea from Lyft founders into a Teamwork candidly-kind prototype
- Catch the hardworking Customer Service regression in staging before it ever reaches Peoria customers
- Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
- Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
What You'll Bring
- Calm under the supportive chaos a junior role tends to generate
- An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
- The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
- Prior experience working on-site in Peoria, IL, or willingness to relocate
- Fluency in Time Series Analysis earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
- A knack for LangChain that colleagues quietly come to rely on
- Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
Built in Peoria and run on caffeine and conviction, Lyft turns messy technology problems into clean, repeatable wins. Our Peoria, IL culture runs on written context, generous handoffs, and very few status meetings.
Start strong at $46,000 - $73,000, grow with a mentor, settle into benefits, and enjoy flexibility that finally fits Peoria.
Pulled forward to the top of the queue today, so your timing is good.
Your next opportunity in technology starts with a single application.