At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Our Recommendations team is responsible for providing riders with the simplest, most relevant decisions they need to make in order to serve their needs. It’s a fundamental, crucial part of the core rider experience. The Recommendations team focuses on building the intelligence that backs the choices and the content that we put in front of our users, working closely with experience teams to ensure the optimal end to end rider XP. While building these product features, they are also focusing on building scalable platforms to speed up future development. 

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting the technical direction for the team, understanding the right tradeoff between platforms and product work, and communicating the strategy transparently to the teams and to the leadership. You will be working in a highly visible and evolving space, and will help shape the product direction by working closely with cross functional partners across Product and Science. You will also lead a group of talented ML and backend engineers and help the team to deliver significant business impact given the ambitious product vision they’re building towards. If you enjoy working in an ambiguous product space, shaping vision and strategy for a foundational area, this is the role for you.

• Set the technical vision and strategy for a rapidly evolving product area
• Co-own the team strategy with the science partner and the team’s tech lead, and ensure a timely deliver with high quality of the engineering solutions
• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers, and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our passengers and drivers

• You have a technical background, with a bias for machine learning, and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
• You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees
• You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development
• You believe in building both teams and products that scale
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
• You can motivate and instil a strong sense of ownership in your team
• You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• You think ahead and build for the future
• You are able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure
• You work well with product and science partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.