Engineering Manager, Lyft
Mapping, XP Services
CA$172-215k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$172-215k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Strong proficiency in both backend (Python, Go, Java, or C++) and frontend (JavaScript, React.js) technologies, and familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience architecting, building, and scaling distributed systems
- Experience launching consumer facing products and iterating through data-driven experimentation
- You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development
- You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
- You can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
- You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- 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
What the job involves
- The Mapping organization at Lyft has spent the last few years building up Lyft’s mapping assets and capabilities by combining many internal and external data sources and services into an increasingly powerful and mission-critical technology stack
- In doing so, we’ve also built industry leading geospatial visualisation and debugging platform
- We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Mapping XP Services team
- This role will accelerate Mapping through an AI-powered transformation to drive the strategy and execution for building AI agents to extract valuable insights from the realtime data
- Mapping AI agents and our agentic-first platform will be used to automate map improvements, debug complex in-ride issues, identify ride anomalies and potential root causes, interpret freeform feedback from drivers and riders, and eventually scale beyond Mapping to draw insights across Lyft teams
- In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences
- 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 high quality delivery 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
- 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 create roadmap, 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
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialled and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app, whilst the acquisition of European competitor Freenow could add 6 million new riders to its platform in 2026.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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