Senior Engineering Manager, Global Growth

About the role

You will own the technical strategy and execution for the Luxury product area, balancing long term platform investments with high impact product work. You will serve as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, ensuring cohesive architecture and quality for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes. You will mentor and grow a diverse team of engineers while collaborating closely with product, design, data science, and operations to define and deliver the luxury experience. You will drive cross functional alignment, remove impediments, and instill a culture of ownership and continuous improvement so your team can ship delightful experiences at scale.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Lead a team of talented backend, frontend, and mobile engineers and engineering managers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems while maintaining high standards for reliability and performance.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members, helping them grow their careers and assigning 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, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives drive better outcomes.
• Set the technical vision and strategy for an evolving product area, making informed tradeoffs between technical investments and product work to support long term scalability.
• Co own the product strategy with the product partner and ensure timely delivery with high quality of the engineering solutions, aligning on priorities and outcomes.
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization, balancing urgent product needs with sustainable platform improvements.
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high impact projects and shipping things quickly, enabling the team to experiment and iterate without compromising reliability.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team's code, architecture, and processes, driving better observability, maintainability, and performance over time.
• Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds, building interview processes that assess both technical depth and collaboration skills.
• Own your team's deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly available products that delight our users and meet the rigorous expectations of the luxury market.
• Partner with data science and analytics to define and track meaningful metrics, using insights to inform product decisions and validate the impact of implemented solutions.
• Collaborate with design and operations to ensure that the end to end user journey is seamless, efficient, and consistent across all touchpoints for passengers and drivers.
• Drive technical execution in a heavily cross functional environment, removing blockers and aligning stakeholders so projects can move forward regardless of organizational complexity.
• Help shape product direction by developing a deep understanding of customer needs, translating qualitative insights into clear product and engineering requirements.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 20+ members, as well as experience in managing managers. Able to contribute to planning and design discussions.
• You have experience building trust to lead a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development, including growing managers and staff engineers.
• You believe in building both teams and products that scale. You think ahead and build for the future.
• 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 are able to thrive in a heavily cross functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure.
• You work well with product partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project.
• You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information while maintaining accountability for outcomes.

Practical notes

The role is based in San Francisco, California, and operates within the standard Lyft work arrangements as defined in the source information. There are no specified work hour constraints, travel requirements, visa conditions, or application deadlines outlined in the provided source material. You will join a team responsible for delivering premium ride experiences where quality is uncompromising, and your contributions will directly impact how Lyft serves its most valued passengers and partners.