Senior Engineering Manager (Mapping)

Lyft; Toronto; On-site; CAD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Flexible paid time off

Subsidized commuter benefits

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Lyft is seeking an Engineering Manager in Toronto to lead a growing engineering team in developing innovative mapping experiences. This role involves managing team dynamics, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The ideal candidate has extensive software engineering experience and a strong background in team leadership.

Lyft provides extensive benefits, including health coverage, paid parental leave, and a flexible paid time off policy. Join Lyft to help shape the future of transportation!

Qualifications

• 7 years of industry experience in building and shipping software.
• Experience leading software engineering teams.
• Experience with mobile products having millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Manage a rapidly growing team of engineers developing mapping experiences.
• Mentor and guide team members in their professional development.
• Own team deliverables ensuring high-quality product delivery.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science

Job 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.

The Mapping team at Lyft is tasked with building a digital representation of the physical world - a map. We collect and serve the freshest and most accurate mapping data possible, along with algorithms, models, platform services, and map-based user experiences that power Lyft’s current and future transportation offerings.

Mapping represents a huge opportunity for Lyft’s business, but also a big challenge. We build and scale systems that deal with large data storage, real‑time data processing, machine / deep learning pipelines, routing and ETA models, driver and passenger location tracking, and more. We built beautiful and magical user experiences on top of all those services, and compete with companies that have been in the mapping business for decades.

Our 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.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a rapidly growing team of engineers developing user‑facing Mapping experiences
• 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
• Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship high‑quality products that delight our passengers and drivers
• Help your team build relationships across functions Product, Design, User Research, Science, and others

Experience:

• Bachelors, Masters in Computer Science or at least 7 years of industry experience building and shipping software
• Experience with leading software engineering teams through tough problems, growing people and shipping software
• Experience leading a team that shipped a mobile product with millions of users
• Previous experience as a software engineer
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them in a fast‑paced but also rigorous fashion
• Excellent communication skills

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

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $216,000 - CAD $270,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.