Director of Engineering, Mapping

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.

About 4 years ago, Lyft began investing in building a top-to-bottom Mapping platform to enable timely, accurate, and efficient navigation and routing for more than 800 million rides each year. Lyft's Mapping team has built industry leading mapping solutions, including: effective and accurate navigation, a data enrichment platform to add mapping data layers to inform each journey, accurate ETA prediction, smooth pickup and dropoff experiences, and accurate traffic and closure information. Most importantly, this team has transformed what the mapping and ride experience is for Rideshare Drivers and Riders.

With these building blocks in place, the team is now looking for an experienced and visionary Director of Engineering, reporting to the Head of Mapping, to lead the technical direction, strategy, and execution of our mapping platform and services. You'll lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence as we continue to build upon the foundational platform that powers our products and services.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on our core technology, shaping the future of how users interact with and experience the world through our mapping solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of leaders, managers and engineers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring high performance.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap and strategy for the Mapping platform, aligning with company goals and product vision.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable, and high-performance mapping services, including data ingestion, processing, rendering, and APIs.
• Drive innovation in mapping technologies, exploring new data sources, algorithms, and visualization techniques.
• Collaborate closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to deliver integrated and compelling user experiences.
• Manage team resources, including hiring, budgeting, and project allocation.
• Promote best practices in software engineering, including agile methodologies, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Represent the Mapping team in cross-functional discussions and to external stakeholders.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Extraordinary interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, cultivator of collaboratively working relationships with teams across an organization, stakeholders, and executives.
• Excellent judgment and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of an ever evolving landscape; considers entire life cycle of deployment in order to ensure a delightful customer experience
• Demonstrated experience managing and growing a high performing team of leaders, managers and engineers, while providing development, mentorship, and excitement to exceed team and department goals
• You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
• You are steadfastly focused on customers, whether they are drivers, riders, partners or Lyft employees
• Forward-thinking, analytical and problem-solving mindset, drawn to building off of ambiguous and unsolved problems and “making it happen”
• Ability to remain flexible and thrive in ambiguity

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. 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, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local