iOS Tooling Engineer at Lyft, Inc.

San Francisco, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Jan, 26

Salary

160000.0

Posted On

08 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

iOS Development, Swift, SwiftUI, Bazel, Python, Bash, CI Pipeline Management, Mobile Testing Practices, Project Management, Open Source Contributions, Developer Experience, Code Review, AI Tools, Command-Line Tools, Infrastructure Scaling, Collaboration

Industry

Ground Passenger Transportation

Description

At Lyft, our core purpose is to serve and connect, fostering a workplace where every team member belongs and has the opportunity to thrive. Join our Mobile Tooling team, where we build foundational systems for Lyft's mobile engineers, enabling them to create stable, scalable, polished, and efficient mobile apps. We're passionate about developer experience, providing flexible tooling for rapid innovation. Are you an enthusiastic engineer with a passion for crafting iOS productivity tools and robust infrastructure? Elevate your skills with our Mobile Tooling team, playing a crucial role in scaling development practices and iteration speed for hundreds of mobile engineers. We support apps with millions of lines of code, hundreds of modules, and industry-leading mobile build systems, keeping builds under 30 seconds locally and 15 minutes in CI. We're proud of our apps, used by millions, reflected in excellent development practices and thoughtful code architecture designed for rapid releases. We focus on delightful user experiences, balancing our roadmap with a mix of developing new tools and infrastructure with refining existing ones based on direct feedback from our internal customers—other mobile engineers. Watch some of our presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u40WqvdRsg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18tEI7YdUtg4bL9yxv1Xjg Open source contributions: https://mobilenativefoundation.org/ https://github.com/lyft/Hammer Responsibilities: Work within our Mobile Tooling team and across the Lyft Mobile development community to create and maintain our mobile build and release infrastructure, building great tools for hundreds of mobile engineers to build, test, and release apps quickly, making their day-to-day joyful and productive. Manage projects from start to finish, ensuring cross-functional alignment and buy-in. Exhibit strong project management capabilities, overcoming obstacles, and gaining necessary stakeholder support. Inform the Lyft Mobile community of any changes to the systems you oversee. Dive into and contribute to the source code of existing tools and the open-source technologies we build on, keeping up-to-date with iOS and industry developments. Analyze our systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and automation. Explore, prototype, and implement prospective tools for scaling our infrastructure such as diving deep into Bazel remote execution or investigating new platform capabilities. Build out mobile specific AI agent workflows to enhance developer productivity, improve migration efficiency, and drive alignment across the codebase. Maintain and update Xcode, iOS versions, and third-party libraries dependencies. Write high-quality, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code. Identify, triage, debug, and resolve issues and bugs across various applications and tools. Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and participate in code reviews to provide feedback to ensure best practices. Experience: Minimum 3+ years of software engineering industry experience Experience of Bazel based-projects or supporting large iOS or MacOS builds Experience in building command-line tools using python or bash Experience maintaining a high performance CI pipeline Worked on and shipped large scale iOS applications Strong knowledge of Swift and Bonus: SwiftUI Deep understanding of native mobile testing practices (unit, snapshot, and UI) Great product sense; you care about usability and good design of your tools Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus: Experience pursuing side projects or open-source projects Bonus: Experience with AI, agentic programming, and AI tools (such as Cursor) that enhance developer experience and productivity. Benefits: Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled Mental health benefits Family building benefits Child care and pet benefits 401(k) plan to help save for your future In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible Subsidized commuter benefits Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 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 3 days per week 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 San Francisco Bay Area area is $128,000 - $160,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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Responsibilities

Create and maintain mobile build and release infrastructure while building tools for mobile engineers. Manage projects, inform the community of changes, and contribute to existing tools and open-source technologies.