Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development
Manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of engineers, providing career development, honest feedback, and growth opportunities tailored to each person's skills and goals
Build a collaborative, inclusive team with a strong sense of ownership, where everyone has space to go deep in their domain
Provide continuous feedback, address performance issues, and recognize individual contributions
Partner with recruiting to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Quality Engineering
Set the technical direction for test automation, test coverage of product features, and the internal tools that support them, and drive adoption across product engineering teams
Advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams on testability, automated coverage, and CI/CD integration
Own release certification, bug bashes, and the production and management of test artifacts and assets, continuously finding ways to automate and streamline them
Release Management & Production Support
Own the release management process, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases across operated and enterprise environments
Lead the engineering support function, including intake of issues escalated through Zendesk, defect management, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues
Turn support data into insight, identifying systemic issues and driving fixes with the owning engineering teams
Developer Experience
Improve the day-to-day development and testing experience for LUS engineers, with a focus on the differences between our operated and enterprise deployments
Partner with Infrastructure to own and evolve test environment management
Stay technically engaged: review technical specifications, challenge estimates, and contribute to solving hard engineering problems
Operational Excellence
Balance the competing demands of a broad charter, keeping urgent release and production work on track while protecting time for long-term investments in automation and tooling
Define, maintain, and evolve processes and metrics across quality, release, and support, keeping them lean and using data to measure impact and guide investment
Collaborate with engineering managers, product managers, and operations partners to maintain a prioritized backlog
Experience
Leadership
3+ years managing software engineering teams
Proven track record of mentorship and career development for engineers
Strategic mindset: you can define a multi-quarter vision for your team, connect it to business goals, and translate it into clear, actionable plans
Experience establishing processes and operating models from the ground up, and evolving them as the team and organization grow
Ability to set clear goals, expectations, and guardrails that give engineers the autonomy to own their work and make decisions, while keeping the team aligned and on target
Demonstrated ability to manage several workstreams at once, each with different priorities, cadences, and stakeholders, and to shift focus quickly without losing track of the bigger picture
Sound judgment and a calm, steady presence during incidents, escalations, and shifting priorities
High degree of ownership, accountability, and emotional intelligence; you build trust with your team and partners and handle difficult conversations with professionalism and care
Experience driving change across an engineering organization, influencing teams you don't directly manage (preferred)
Technical Foundation
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong hands-on software engineering background in backend, mobile, or web; you stay close enough to the code to guide technical decisions, not just manage from a distance
Experience designing or building test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, or developer tooling
Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production
Familiarity with release engineering and incident or defect management practices
Communication
Fluent in English and French, written and spoken
Communicate effectively across technical and business contexts, through technical documents, discussions, and presentations, adapting your style to different audiences
Benefits
Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Pet benefits
Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
RRSP plan with company match 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
Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits
Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. 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 if you wish to make such a request.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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 the Montreal area is CAD $140,000 - CAD $175,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
