Engineering Manager, Driving

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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.

Lyft’s 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. Our engineering managers are people with varying technical backgrounds and interests -- some are involved in the technical details of their team and others provide general technical direction and oversight. As managers, our job is to keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Driving team which is responsible for everything related to the core driver app and all experiences the driver has while driving for Lyft. The Driving team — part of the larger Driver Experience org — owns the iOS and Android Driver apps build most of the features in the Driver app and are the key proponent of our drivers internally at Lyft amongst all Product and Engineering teams. We are looking for a strong Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-quality experiences for millions of users, leading the team’s product and technical roadmap, and influencing numerous other technical teams within Lyft to build Driver-related features.

Responsibilities:

  • 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 find projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
  • Invest heavily in performance reviews and your team’s self-evals. Do a great job of representing your team in calibrations and promotion committees
  • 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
  • Work closely with partner teams in Support, Driver, and Customer Experience and Trust to prioritize work and collaborate in projects that will improve the lives of our Drivers
  • 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 with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
  • Work with your engineer’s cross-functional peers (Product, Design, Science) 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

Experience:

  • You have 3+ years of experience managing engineers and guiding them through their career development
  • You’ve represented your team through multiple performance review cycles and calibration meetings 
  • You’ve worked heavily with both cross-functional partners and across different teams
  • You have a technical background and are able to contribute and lead planning and design discussions
  • You have expertise in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java)
  • You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees
  • 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

Benefits:

  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • In addition to 11 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
  • Monthly commuter subsidy to cover your transit to work
  • 20% off all Lyft rides

Lyft is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.