Lyft Jobs

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.

The mission of the Pay Platform team at Lyft is to - Provide best-in-class- reliable, transparent and cost-effective payments platform to all Lyft products. The team is responsible for ensuring that all Lyft products - Rideshare, Bikes, Scooters, Subscription etc are able to cost effectively process payments, both, pay-ins and pay-outs. This means processing tens of billions of dollars in customer payments and driver payouts every year. The team also builds platform capabilities to support innovative payment products, some of the recent ones include Daily Billing, Lyft Cash (https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/a-new-payment-option-for-the-millions-of-people-who-are-cash-preferred) , Lyft Direct (https://www.lyft.com/driver/direct-debit-card) , Subscriptions and several others. The team owns the integration with our 3rd party payment processors, co-brand partners and gift card program managers.

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 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

• Build strong relationships with product, support and operations teams, to influence technical roadmaps

Experience:

• You have 3+ years as an engineering manager and experience managing teams of 8+ engineers, coaching and developing staff and senior engineers

• Experience with Identity or similar domains is a big plus

• You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions

• You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees

• You believe in building both teams and products that scale

• 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 wor

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options

• Mental health benefits

• Family building 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

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $172,000 - $215,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.