Engineering Manager, Rides Safety

About Bolt

Bolt is shaping a future where cities are built for people, not cars. What started as an ambitious project of a 19-year-old in 2013 has grown into a global mobility platform used by more than 200 million customers and 4.5 million driver and courier partners across 50 countries.

From ride-hailing and food delivery to scooters, e-bikes, and car-sharing, Bolt helps people move through cities every day. Small, autonomous teams drive this work, combining the speed and ownership of a startup with the scale of a global technology company backed by more than 1bn in funding.

And we're just getting started.

Why join Bolt?

Build the future of mobility and help transform how people live and move in cities.

Tackle challenges at scale that span technology, operations, regulation, and growth.

Take real ownership early. Small, lean teams mean your decisions matter from day one, and you'll learn fast alongside some of the best people in the industry.

Join one of Europe's leading technology companies, backed by world-class investors including Sequoia.

About the role

As Engineering Manager of the Rides Safety team, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team (backend, mobile platforms, data science) that ships risk signals, in-trip safety features, and incident tooling used across many markets. You'll balance user experience, growth, and operational cost against safety and risk reduction making pragmatic tradeoffs between more friction and more exposure, between false positives and missed events, in close partnership with Product and Operations.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Lead and grow talented Software Engineers specialising in backend, mobile platforms, and data science, building and operating systems where failures have real user and operational impact.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, and Operations to define safety metrics, guide priorities, and measure impact.
• Define and drive the team roadmap, making pragmatic tradeoffs between risk coverage, complexity, and global vs. local needs.
• Create a team setup that enables predictable delivery, good engineering quality, and healthy collaboration.
• Drive individual 1-1s to mentor and coach Software Engineers to develop skills and uncover their potential.
• Communicate context and decisions clearly to engineers, stakeholders, and leadership.

• You have experience owning a product or platform area end-to-end, and can handle ambiguity narrowing open problem spaces and moving teams from discussion to decisions.
• You have 5+ years of hands-on software development experience and a deep understanding of how to write maintainable, performant systems.
• You have strong backend engineering fundamentals, with the ability to review and challenge designs across backend services, mobile integration, and data/ML systems.
• You are comfortable working with data: metrics, experiments, dashboards, and basic statistical reasoning.
• You have led high-performing engineering teams with a proven ability to attract, inspire, and retain talent.
• You have a strong vision for the future, with a proven ability to set up engineering processes and make data-driven decisions.

• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
• Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
• Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.