Engineering Manager, Communication Platform

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.

The Communication Platform team is seeking an engineering manager to help us scale and further improve our communication platforms’ capabilities and scalabilities in the rideshare industry. We are a full stack team that builds and owns platforms and products that enable streamlined communications between customers and Lyft, including real-time translations, rich communication channel offerings, etc. Our engineers are smart, passionate, and impact driven. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast with high quality, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. We look for engineering managers who are passionate about improving people’s lives and have solid technical backgrounds and interests -- some are involved in the technical details of their team and others provide general technical direction and oversight. As a manager, you will keep the team 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.

Responsibilities:

• Set the technical vision and strategy for the Communication Platforms. 
• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems. Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly.
• Coach 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.
• 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
• Collaborate closely with your engineers, leadership and cross-functional partners (e.g. product, science, design, marketing, legal, operations, policy and others) 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:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, a related technical field, or relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, ideally with experience in both platform engineering and product engineering.
• Passion for building scalable and extensible solutions that enable others and ensure a high-quality product.
• Experience launching and supporting consumer-facing products.
• Ability to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure.

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 Seattle area is $144,000-$180,000.  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.