Engineering Manager, Mapping - XP Services

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones.

Without mapping services, none of these real world interactions between people and transport can happen.
The Mapping organization at Lyft has spent the last few years building up Lyft’s mapping assets and capabilities by combining many internal and external data sources and services into an increasingly powerful and mission-critical technology stack. In doing so, we’ve also built industry leading geospatial visualisation and debugging platform.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Mapping XP Services team. This role will accelerate Mapping through an AI-powered transformation to drive the strategy and execution for building AI agents to extract valuable insights from the realtime data. Mapping AI agents and our agentic-first platform will be used to automate map improvements, debug complex in-ride issues, identify ride anomalies and potential root causes, interpret freeform feedback from drivers and riders, and eventually scale beyond Mapping to draw insights across Lyft teams.
In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences.
Responsibilities   Set the technical vision and strategy for a rapidly evolving product area
Co-own the product strategy with the product partner and ensure a timely high quality delivery of the engineering solutions
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 performance, 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 create roadmap, 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   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
4+ years of experience managing engineering teams
Strong proficiency in both backend (Python, Go, Java, or C++) and frontend (JavaScript, React.js) technologies, and familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
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 heavily cross‑functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure
You work well with product and science partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project
 Benefits   Extended health and…