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Technical Lead Manager, Trip Platform

Waymo, Mountain View, California, us, 94039

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Technical Lead Manager, Trip Platform 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.

TaaS (Transportation as a Service) is responsible for building an amazing user experience and business around the Waymo Driver. We are responsible collectively for Growth, Territory Expansion, Service Quality (including pickup, dropoff and routing), Marketplace (pricing, positioning, matching), and Partnerships / B2B(2C) monetization. The Trip platform team specifically focuses 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.

You Will

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.

Design and implement partner‑facing API services for various customer‑hailing scenarios, including managing trip requests and calculating pickup and ride times; calculate the price of rides.

Collaborate with external partners to jointly build great Waymo experiences on 3rd party platforms.

Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like OnePlatform API, Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom‑built systems for our specific problems.

You Have

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

6+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages.

2+ years of people‑management experience.

Technical leader experience.

Experience in building backend applications and API.

We Prefer

Experience in C++.

MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

10+ years experience in developing low‑latency, large‑scale, user‑facing distributed systems.

Domain knowledge across the transportation, mobility, and/or autonomous vehicle industries.

Salary Base salary range: $238,000—$302,000 USD (actual pay based on location, experience, etc.). Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Senior Level Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Engineering and Information Technology

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