Technical Lead Manager, Trip Platform

<div class="content-intro"><p>Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.</p></div><p>TaaS (Transportation as a Service) is responsible for building an amazing user experience and business around the Waymo Driver.&nbsp; We are responsible collectively for Growth, Territory Expansion, Service Quality (including pickup, dropoff and routing), Marketplace (pricing, positioning, matching), and Partnerships / B2B(2C) monetization.</p> <p>Trip platform team specifically focus on building Waymo's core trip platform to support multiple high-growth use cases, including ride-hailing and delivery, across both 1st party and 3rd party B2B partners’ needs, enabling broader access to Waymo technology for more people and markets</p> <p>In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.</p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead a growing team of 5-6 junior and senior engineers to implement and scale Waymo's core trip platform to support multiple high-growth use cases, including ride-hailing and delivery, across both 1st party and 3rd party B2B partners’ needs, enabling broader access to Waymo technology for more people and markets.</li> <li>Design and implement partner facing API services for various customer-hailing scenarios, including managing trip requests and calculating pickup and ride times; calculates the price of rides.</li> <li>Collaborate with external partners to jointly build great Waymo experiences on 3rd party platforms.</li> <li>Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like OnePlatform API, Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>6+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages.</li> <li>2+ years of people management experience.</li> <li>Technical leader experience.</li> <li>Experience in building backend applications and API.</li> </ul> <p><strong>We prefer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in C++.</li> <li>MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>10+ years experience in developing low latency, large-scale, user facing distributed systems.</li> <li>Domain knowledge across the transportation, mobility, and/or autonomous vehicle industries.</li> </ul> <p>#LI-Hybrid</p>