Software Engineering Manager

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

As a leader in micromobility, Lyft powers millions of rides daily across over 200 cities with our cutting-edge ride-sharing, bike-sharing, and scooter-sharing technologies. Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North America's first automated bike-share system, Bixi, which has since revolutionized urban mobility. Today, our pioneering system is operational in more than 50 cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Washington DC, to name just a few. Join us and be part of the team behind some of the world's largest and most successful bike-share systems!

The Lyft Urban Solutions (LUS) engineering team in Montreal is growing, and we are looking for an experienced engineering manager to help us. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and capable of 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 varying technical backgrounds and interests, they provide general technical direction for our teams. Together, we build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things we create. More specifically, the manager we are looking for has a solid experience leading multiple teams and managers (3 teams, 20 people, 1 manager, 3 staff engineers), and will be taking ownership of our Supply teams (Stations, Rideables and Kiosks).

Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor and lead a technical team as well as work on personal and technical development of its team members
• Structure and staff the team, aiming to provide growth opportunities to team members and achieve business goals in parallel
• Guide the team to deliver high-quality products and solutions by following best practices
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Work with your engineers, product owners, and data scientists to create plans and maintain a prioritized backlog of work
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure shipment of scalable, highly available products that delight our passengers and drivers
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
• Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
• Think ahead and build for the future

Experience:

• You are fluent in English and French, written and spoken
• 7+ years technical experience software engineering management
• You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Experience guiding teams through major technology and organizational transformations, a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively in various forms, e.g. technical documents, discussions, presentation
• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans, including family coverage
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health support programs
• Healthcare Spending Account (HSA)
• Fertility and family-building support
• Complimentary lunch, snacks, beverages, coffee, and tea in our offices
• Additional holidays (12 in 2025, 4 more than the legal requirement)
• Flexible paid time off policy (no hard limits)
• Flexible sick time polity (no hard limits)
• Occasional company-wide recharge days (5 in 2025)
• Up to 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave, subject to certain conditions, for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
• And other special benefits related to our services

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

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