Job description
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.
About 4 years ago, Lyft began investing in building a top-to-bottom Mapping platform to enable timely, accurate, and efficient navigation and routing for more than 800 million rides each year. Lyft’s Mapping team has built industry leading mapping solutions, including: effective and accurate navigation, a data enrichment platform to add mapping data layers to inform each journey, accurate ETA prediction, smooth pickup and dropoff experiences, and accurate traffic and closure information. Most importantly, this team has transformed what the mapping and ride experience is for Rideshare Drivers and Riders.
With these building blocks in place, the team is now looking for an experienced and visionary Director of Engineering, reporting to the Head of Mapping, to lead the technical direction, strategy, and execution of our mapping platform and services. You’ll lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence as we continue to build upon the foundational platform that powers our products and services.
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on our core technology, shaping the future of how users interact with and experience the world through our mapping solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of leaders, managers and engineers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring high performance.
- Define and execute the technical roadmap and strategy for the Mapping platform, aligning with company goals and product vision.
- Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable, and high-performance mapping services, including data ingestion, processing, rendering, and APIs.
- Drive innovation in mapping technologies, exploring new data sources, algorithms, and visualization techniques.
- Collaborate closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to deliver integrated and compelling user experiences.
- Manage team resources, including hiring, budgeting, and project allocation.
- Promote best practices in software engineering, including agile methodologies, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Represent the Mapping team in cross-functional discussions and to external stakeholders.
Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Extraordinary interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, cultivator of collaboratively working relationships with teams across an organization, stakeholders, and executives.
- Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of an ever evolving landscape; considers entire life cycle of deployment in order to ensure a delightful customer experience
- Demonstrated experience managing and growing a high performing team of leaders, managers and engineers, while providing development, mentorship, and excitement to exceed team and department goals
- You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
- You are steadfastly focused on customers, whether they are drivers, riders, partners or Lyft employees
- Forward-thinking, analytical and problem-solving mindset, drawn to building off of ambiguous and unsolved problems and “making it happen”
- Ability to remain flexible and thrive in ambiguity
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 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 if you wish to make such a request.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
