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Lyft Engineering Manager, Identity in Seattle, Washington
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft’s engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for engineering managers to help us scale. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. Our engineering managers are people with strong technical backgrounds and interests -- some are involved in the technical details of their team and others provide general technical direction and oversight. As managers, our job is to keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.
The mission of Identity team is to - Enable Lyft to provide the world's best transportation experience by knowing our customers and creating safe, secure, personalized and seamless portable access . Our work touches every user that signs up, logs in and uses our platform, across over two million rides a day. Our team’s scope encompasses all three types of Lyft customers - riders, drivers and enterprise partners, and includes impactful objectives such as:
Accounts & Authentication Ensure the security, reliability and compliance of user information including appropriate access to Lyft services based on various factors
Identity Verification Collect and validate the user profile information to support access, personalization and delivery of Lyft services.
Enabling Partnerships Enable the accurate exchange of identity, without revealing PII information to ecosystem partners and participants.
This is a full-stack team that owns the core Identity platform, multiple critical Tier-0 services, integration with various external vendors, as well as consumer-facing Identity experiences. The breadth and depth of our team’s scope requires us to move quickly, but also balance that with scalable platform solutions that other engineering teams depend on.
Responsibilities:
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 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
Build strong relationships with product, support and operations teams, to influence technical roadmaps
Experience:
You have 3+ years as an engineering manager and experience managing teams of 8+ engineers, coaching and developing staff and senior engineers
Experience with Identity or similar domains is a big plus
You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees
You believe in building both teams and products that scale
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
Benefits:
Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
401(k) plan to help save for your future
18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
Pre-tax commuter benefits
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Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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 or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in Seattle is $158,240 - $197,800. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.