# Senior Engineering Manager, Mapping

**Company:** [Lyft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lyft)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $208k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** mobile development, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, data processing, routing algorithms, eta models, Real-Time Systems, large-scale data storage
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead and grow a team of engineers building user-facing mapping experiences and mobile products at Lyft. Requires 7+ years experience, prior software engineering background, and proven success leading mobile products with millions of users.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Manage a rapidly growing team of engineers developing user-facing Mapping experiences
- 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 underperformance, 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 maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
- Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship high-quality products that delight our passengers and drivers
- Help your team build relationships across functions Product, Design, User Research, Science, and others

## Requirements
- Bachelors, Masters in Computer Science or at least 7 years of industry experience building and shipping software
- Experience with leading software engineering teams through tough problems, growing people and shipping software
- Experience leading a team that shipped a mobile product with millions of users
- Previous experience as a software engineer
- Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them in a fast-paced but also rigorous fashion
- Excellent communication skills

## 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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