At Lyft, our mission is to serve and connect. Fleets is a dynamic area working with 3rd-party partners to match autonomous, livery, and taxi fleets with the Lyft marketplace; managing programs for special vehicles like Express Drive rentals, electric, and premium vehicles; and crafting tooling for on-the-ground fleet operations. As an Engineering Manager on Global Growth, you’ll be responsible for setting the technical direction for the team, making tradeoffs between technical investments and product work, and communicating the strategy transparently to the team and to leadership. You will help shape the product direction by developing a deep understanding of the customer and working closely with cross-functional partners from Product, Design, Science, and Operations. You will lead a group of talented engineers and help the team to deliver business impact while being open to change through constant experimentation. If you enjoy collaborating with technical and nontechnical partners on a product with real-world impact, this is the role for you. Responsibilities: Lead a team of talented backend and mobile 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 Set the technical vision and strategy for an evolving product area Co-own the product strategy with the product partner and ensure timely delivery with high quality of the engineering solutions 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
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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. Lyft is looking for an Engineering Manager from across multiple disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve, and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an Engineering Manager at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other teams and orgs, product managers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and operations on technology that empowers us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with specific verticals like your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution. As an Engineering Manager on the Rider vertical team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of supporting current projects and delivering new products from 0 to 1. This includes developing complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring engineering excellence to improve the rideshare experience. Responsibilities: Drive team execution, proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs. Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Marketing, Science, and Analytics) to define the team's strategic direction. Translate high-level business goals into actionable projects. Own a team roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Maintain operational excellence through contributing to best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes. Ensure technical excellence through architecture reviews, tech debt management, and engineering guidance. Maintain team health
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. Lyft is hiring an experienced, talented and energetic M&A lawyer to join our expanding Legal team. You will lead a broad range of corporate and transactional matters and provide effective, business-focused legal advice to stakeholders throughout Lyft. Our legal work is cutting edge and always evolving. Reporting into the VP, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate & Commercial, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, resourceful, and highly collaborative leader who can continuously assess and advise on legal issues using a creative and pragmatic approach. Responsibilities: Lead a wide range of corporate initiatives, including complex M&A and integrations, divestitures, strategic investments, joint ventures, domestic and international corporate structuring, capital markets transactions, financing matters, subsidiary management and other strategic corporate projects. Manage and mentor a high-performing in-house team of M&A legal professionals, fostering a culture of growth and execution excellence. Partner closely with Lyft’s Corporate Development team and Treasury team as well as advise company leadership and cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. people, accounting, tax, treasury, operations, etc.) on novel corporate legal issues, opportunities and risks of corporate transactions. Draft and negotiate NDAs, LOIs/term sheets and definitive transaction agreements. Shape, scale and improve our legal processes/playbooks that enable both legal and business functions to scale effectively. Assist other teams with projects on an as-needed basis. Experience: 10+ years of experience practicing corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on M&A and strategic transactions; experience at a top-tier law firm and in-house experience at a public company are both required. Degree from top-tier law s
From C$216K/yr
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. On the Rider team, we are growing our team with people who want to enrich the lives of our community through technology. You'll collaborate with highly cross-functional teams such as Product, Design, Data science, and Analytics, as well as other organizations like Driver, Partners, and Marketplace, to deliver on that promise. As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Rider Loyalty, Partnerships, and Rider Pay (PLP) group, you will lead multiple managers and Staff ICs with end-to-end teams, consisting of iOS, Android, and Server, to make Riders into Members and to build a robust network of partners that our Riders love. It is your responsibility to sweat the details by being customer-obsessed with specific Rider needs and to build innovative product solutions to address them. Responsibilities: Set the technical vision and team strategy for the PLP group and communicate that downwards, with peers, and upwards with ELT Coach and guide an organization of managers and engineers in their people and technical development Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high business impact Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 20+ members, including teams across iOS, Android, and Server platforms, as well as experience in managing managers Ability to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure Passion for building scalable and extensible solutions that enable others and ensure a high-quality product Experience launching and supporting consumer-facing products at scale Strong technica
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. As an Engineering Manager on the Core Rider team, you will act as a critical technical leader in a highly visible area of the Rider Organization. Taking holistic ownership of our foundational systems and core rider functionality, you will be directly responsible for moving top-line business metrics and delivering a seamless rideshare experience. You will partner with multiple product managers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to develop complex systems, define strategic roadmaps, scale the product and infrastructure that powers how millions of riders request and experience their rides every day. Responsibilities: Drive team execution, proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs. Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Marketing, Science, and Analytics) to define the team's strategic direction. Translate high-level business goals into actionable projects. Own a team roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Maintain operational excellence through contributing to best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes. Ensure technical excellence through architecture reviews, tech debt management, and engineering guidance. Maintain team health by creating and refining team processes, fostering a supportive team culture, and managing resourcing. Develop team member careers by matching them with opportunities, setting clear expectations, and providing timely feedback. Build relationships across engineering teams to share learnings, align on standards, and identify collaboration opportunities. Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader community. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practic
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. To strengthen our efforts, we are hiring a Senior ML Engineer who will work end-to-end on creating and improving new capabilities to detect changes in the environment and reflect them in our Lyft map using a wide variety of input sources from the Lyft fleet. For this we are looking for someone who values software engineering best practices, loves the algorithmic and geospatial side of the challenge and is data-driven from start to end. Our technology stack ranges from basic machine learning models to large language models and running them at scale on millions of images. You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from machine learning, data science, and engineering on projects that delight our passengers and drivers – powered by an up to date map. Responsibilities: Partner with Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Partners to apply machine learning for business and user impact Perform data analysis and build proof-of-concept to explore and propose ML solutions to both new and existing proble
From C$1.3M/yr
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 Safety and Customer Care (SCC) team at Lyft manages over 1.7 million monthly human and AI interactions and serves as Lyft's primary direct touchpoint with riders and drivers. We handle critical infrastructure that powers both human associates and AI agents to make riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable while riding or driving with Lyft, transforming every support interaction into a moment of genuine connection. As a Data Scientist working on Causal Inference in SCC, you'll partner with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers, and operations leaders to deliver a personalized and exceptional experience for Lyft customers, using rigorous causal inference to guide the highest-stakes decisions we make. We're looking for a motivated and talented Data Scientist with deep causal inference expertise to join the SCC Data Science team. You'll partner closely with the area's tech lead on high-impact work spanning AI-powered support products, differentiated service, and operations optimization. The ideal candidate brings sharp applied inference intuition, a bias toward impact, and the ability to cut through ambiguity in complex problem spaces. You'll work on projects like: Design rigorous experiments and quasi-experiments to measure the causal impact of SCC product and AI-agent launches, and drive data-informed launch decisions. Build causal ML models to optimize concession budget allocation, targeting the right support credit, to the right rider or driver, at the right moment to maximize trust and business impact. Quantify the long-term effects of support-experience changes on rider and driver retention, and uncover heterogeneous treatment effects across our community. Deliver strategic insights on quality–cost tradeoffs, empowering leadership to balance service quality, coverage,
From C$108K/yr
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. Our transport network serves the needs of millions of people every day who want to get from one place to another using Lyft cars, bikes and scooters, with public transportation, or on foot in the most efficient way. To serve these needs, we need to suggest the fastest, most affordable and safest routes. We achieve this by processing millions of rides, taking into account the latest traffic information and analyzing the preferences of drivers. To strengthen our efforts, we are hiring a Software Engineer who will work on improving our routing engine, on building cloud-based services that can process millions of route requests per day and on creating workflows to process and analyze the data collected from our rides. For this we are looking for someone who has a strong background in software architecture and algorithms and understands at the same time how to build efficient data processing pipelines. Our technology stack is based on the latest technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, Flink, and Kafka. We use AI and machine learning to improve development productivity, optimize customer support workflows, and enhance operational efficiency — all without compromising code quality or security. You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on projects that delight millions of passengers and drivers. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best routing experience possible Build and deploy mission critical algorithms and services that can serve millions of requests per day (backend and data-streaming services written in C++, Go, and Python) Analyze rides, understand customer pain points, prioritize and size feature requests and help design solutions based on o
From C$136K/yr
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. Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers from a variety of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will lead work streams to improve business operations in Lyft’s Marketplace. You'll design AI driven data analytics platforms, data pipelines and metric governance systems that our business leaders use on a daily basis to make key strategic decisions. You will partner with business leaders and data scientists across our organizations to enable running the business more efficiently. Responsibilities: Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Drive AI innovation for business analytics and operations Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Lead projects from idea to positive execution Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices Experience: 5+ years of software engineering industry experience with a high level programming language (bonus points for experience with Python or Go) AI Experience in Agen
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 Lyft Business organization builds the platform that lets organizations move the people they depend on employees, clients, and customers. From the foundational mechanics of a company funding and provisioning a ride to the tailored workflows that get an employee to a client meeting or home after a late shift, we sweat the small stuff to make Lyft the transportation solution businesses build their programs on. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Lyft Business Team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of complex systems that span the rider experience, the administrator experience, and the enterprise integrations behind them — defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and driving engineering excellence to improve how organizations move their people. Responsibilities: Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of s
From C$108K/yr
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. Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems. The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. Rider Engagement develops rider-facing engagement levers and optimizes user pricing experience to drive both short term and long term business outcomes. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintaina
$128K – $160K/yr
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. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions. We tackle a wide range of challenges—from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Data Scientist to join the Central Market Management team and lead key initiatives that enhance the quality of our overall decision-making. You’ll work cross functionally with other Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Product Managers, and Finance partners to make sure we are making the most financially efficient decisions to scale our business. You will identify gaps in our operational processes and measurements, and work to create strategies, frameworks, and models to help address them and deliver impact. Responsibilities Leverage data and analytical frameworks to identify opportunities for improving operational efficiency Define and implement decision frameworks, measurement strategies, and scientific methodologies that bring consistency and rigor to business decisions and forecasts, balancing opportunity and uncertainty Deliver integrated, high-quality analytical outputs spanning multiple projects while navigating ambiguity, cross-team dependencies, and open-ended scope Define and implement a robust attribution framework to evaluate the performance of high-stakes decisions Act as a technical lead, guiding other Data Scientists and fostering a culture of analytical excellence Write efficient, clean, production-level code (Python, SQL), ensuring reproducibility, documentation, and long-term maintainability of analytical assets B
$136K – $170K/yr
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. Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems. The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you. Responsibilities: Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Lead projects of multiple people from idea to positive execution Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Utilize your expertise in Python, Golang, AWS to deliver robust and scalable solutions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Share your kno
From C$108K/yr
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. 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 enabled new user experiences and features across all of Lyft’s products, including rideshare industry leading firsts like CarPlay, Android Auto, and real-time driver feedback! We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Mapping experiences team that builds end user features to enhance drivers and riders experience on Lyft’s platform by using our in house navigation system. We are looking for an engineer with expertise in system architecture, cross team collaboration, and experience in building scalable solutions in the cloud environments. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, operations, and AI/ML teams on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations Share your knowledge by giving brown ba
From C$102K/yr
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. Our core corporate finance functions are critical to Lyft’s success. The health and sustainability of our applications, systems, tooling and processes are critical for daily operations and for Lyft’s ability to grow. The Oracle EPM Engineer possesses both business and technical acumen. This engineering role provides support for Lyft’s Corporate consolidations systems, managing their daily performance and incidents, creating automated workflows, building customer solutions, configuring applications, providing end user training and protecting all system related information assets. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your deep expertise in FCCS, ARCS, Data Exchange and EDMCS to drive innovation across our financial consolidation, reporting, reconciliation, and planning processes. Working at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders to architect solutions that enhance accuracy, efficiency, and compliance while positioning our organization for continued growth and adaptability in a dynamic business environment. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Expertise Lead all aspects of the front-end administration of the FCCS, ARCS, Data Exchange, EDMCS systems including maintaining metadata, rules, forms, developing reports, creating locations, mappings, and granting user access. Serve as the support person and subject matter expert for FCCS, Data Exchange and ARCS configurations, setting technical standards and driving continuous improvement initiatives Strong understanding of complex EPM implementation projects from conception to completion, ensuring on-time, within-budget delivery while exceeding stakeholder expectations Advanced System Configuration & Development Design and implement sophisticated FCCS business rules, incl
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