Director of Engineering, Enterprise Platforms

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.

An important part of building the world’s best transportation is deeply understanding the best way to move people and their vehicles through our communities. The Enterprise Platform team is responsible for enabling thousands of companies to offer safe, affordable and reliable solutions for ground transportation needs, using Lyft Business, as well as provide commerce solutions for various business units within Lyft. 

As the engineering leader for this area, you will oversee a number of teams that offer enterprise grade products and platforms, including corporate business travel programs, payment solutions, account access features and integrity & fraud management systems . You will directly oversee managers, senior managers, and tech leads,  with a deep understanding of the complexity of a fully scaled out system.   You make necessary investments to provide highly scalable and reliable systems. You will contribute to the technical and product strategy as well as engineering-wide activities across Lyft such as hiring, onboarding, performance, and professional development.

• 6 + years as an engineering leader
• Experience in managing an organization of 75+ engineers, coaching and developing other managers
• Skilled at leading a distributed organization across different geographies
• Technical background with ability to dive deep into planning and design discussions focused on scalability and future platform needs
• Managed business-critical systems at a scaled company
• Prior background in B2B solutions, payments and commerce systems, strongly preferred
• Operating experience at the intersection of data, machine learning, and distributed systems engineering
• Natural ability to make things happen around you. You manage project ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized and structured way, holding  your teams to the highest possible standards.
• Delegate meaningful ownership to the people in your organization and provide the appropriate coaching and mentorship
• Build strong relationships with product, sales, support and operations teams, to influence technical roadmaps
• Ability to motivate and instill a strong sense of identity within your team

• 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
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

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.  

Until further notice, Lyft employees working in the United States and Canada in any capacity (on a daily or hybrid schedule, remote, or as a visitor) are required to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated and up to date against COVID-19. Fully vaccinated and up to date means an employee has: 1) received all recommended doses in a primary series of COVID-19 vaccine; and 2) either has received a booster dose or is not yet eligible to receive a booster dose but will do so when eligible. Lyft will maintain records associated with your vaccination history in a way that is compliant with all relevant Federal, state and local laws. Exceptions to this requirement are employees who require religious or medical exemption as approved through Lyft's accommodations process. New employees must provide proof of full vaccination or receive an accommodation exception approval prior to their start date.

This role is work-from-anywhere, excluding the following states and U.S. territory:  Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Puerto Rico