Engineering Manager, Rider

Full Time
Toronto, ON, Canada
8 months ago

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.

As an Engineering Manager for Rider Segments, you will lead a group of talented engineers and help the team to deliver significant business impact and improve riders' experience with rideshare. In addition, your team will focus on incentivizing riders to prefer Lyft, build differentiated features for specific use cases like travel, commute & social, and integrate strategic partners into the Lyft rideshare ecosystem. You will be working in a highly visible and evolving space, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to increase the adoption & usage of Lyft by working closely with cross functional partners from Product, Design, and Science. 

Responsibilities:
  • Set the technical vision and strategy for a rapidly evolving product area
  • Co-own the product strategy with the product partner 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
  • Provide continuous feedback, address performance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
  • 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
  • Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long-term goals
  • Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our passengers and drivers
  • Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • Experience providing active mentorship and career guidance
  • Experience architecting, building, and scaling distributed systems
  • Experience launching consumer facing products and iterating through data-driven experimentation
  • You are able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure
  • Strong technical foundation in mobile or server engineering
Benefits:
  • 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.