Engineering Manager, Road Safety & Telematics
Job Description
Description
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.
Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who brings exceptional technical leadership and people management skills to drive forward a best-in-class product aimed to make the Lyft platform safer.
As the Engineering Manager for Road Safety and Telematics, you’ll lead a team of talented engineers focused on building innovative systems that empower safer driving on our platform. This includes overseeing the development and optimization of pipelines that monitor and collect driving signals during each ride to assess smoothness and safety. You will work closely with product managers, data scientists, actuary teams and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable telematics & road safety solutions that assess and mitigate driving risk across the platform.
Responsibilities:
- Set the technical vision and strategy for a rapidly evolving product area
- Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship scalable, highly available products and tackle 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
- 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 your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long-term goals
- Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Strong proficiency in Backend development, Data management, and Cloud platforms technologies.
- 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 cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion
- You work well with product and science partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project
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
Company
Lyft
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
125.000
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