# Senior Engineering Manager, Global Growth

**Company:** [Lyft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lyft)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $208k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** backend engineering, frontend engineering, iOS, Android, engineering management, Product Strategy, team mentoring, hiring, technical vision, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead a team of backend, frontend, and mobile engineers building high-quality app experiences for Lyft's Luxury ride modes (Black, Black SUV). Set technical direction, co-own product strategy, mentor managers and engineers, and drive cross-functional execution to deliver scalable, delightful products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead a team of talented backend, frontend, and mobile engineers and engineering managers 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 to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
- Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our users

## Experience
- 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
- Experience building trust to lead a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development, including growing managers and staff engineers
- Believe in building both teams and products that scale. Think ahead and build for the future
- Enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and committed to driving projects to completion creatively
- Able to motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
- Able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure
- Work well with product partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project

## 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 with company match 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
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

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