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.
The Mapping team at Lyft is tasked with building a digital representation of the physical world - a map. We collect and serve the freshest and most accurate mapping data possible, along with algorithms, models, platform services, and map-based user experiences that power Lyft’s current and future transportation offerings.
Mapping represents a huge opportunity for Lyft’s business, but also a big challenge. We build and scale systems that deal with large data storage, real-time data processing, machine / deep learning pipelines, routing and ETA models, driver and passenger location tracking, and more. We built beautiful and magical user experiences on top of all those services, and compete with companies that have been in the mapping business for decades.
Our engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for Engineering Managers to help us scale. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
Responsibilities:
Manage a rapidly growing team of engineers developing user-facing Mapping experiences
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 underperformance, 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
Instill 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 high-quality products that delight our passengers and drivers
Help your team build relationships across functions Product, Design, User Research, Science, and others
Experience:
Bachelors, Masters in Computer Science or at least 7 years of industry experience building and shipping software
Experience with leading software engineering teams through tough problems, growing people and shipping software
Experience leading a team that shipped a mobile product with millions of users
Previous experience as a software engineer
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them in a fast-paced but also rigorous fashion
Excellent communication skills
Benefits:
Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Child care and pet benefits
Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
RRSP plan to help save for your future
In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
Subsidized commuter benefits
Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities wi