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Engineering Manager, Rides Safety | Bolt Careers Careers Engineering Engineering Manager, Rides Safety Engineering Manager, Rides Safety We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Rides Safety team. Your team will build and operate the systems that help keep riders and drivers safe before, during, and after every trip – from preventing abuse and dangerous behaviour to reacting fast when something goes wrong. This is a role with clear, measurable impact on millions of trips and a strong influence on how safety-related product and engineering decisions are shaped and executed across Bolt. Location: Tallinn, Estonia View all roles Apply now
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the role Rides Safety sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and operations. You’ll lead a cross-functional engineering team (backend, mobile platforms, data science) that ships risk signals, in-trip safety features, and incident tooling used by internal teams across many markets. The work is demanding: you’ll balance user experience, growth, and operational cost against safety and risk reduction. There are no perfect answers, you’ll often choose between more friction and more exposure, between false positives and missed events, and contribute to tradeoffs together with Product and Operations. You’ll use data, domain input, and your team’s technical judgment to iterate towards a safer and more reliable system, supporting safety-critical flows across multiple markets and regions. Main tasks and
responsibilities: Leading and growing talented Software Engineers specialising in backend, mobile platforms and data science development, building and operating systems where failures have real user and operational impact. Partnering with Product and Analytics to define safety metrics and use them to guide priorities; using them to guide priorities and measure impact; making pragmatic tradeoffs between catching more risk and avoiding unnecessary user friction, coverage and complexity, global solutions and local needs. Defining and driving
