Lyft's Mobile Tooling team needs to build foundational systems for Lyft's mobile engineers, enabling them to create stable, scalable, polished, and efficient mobile apps. The goal is to improve developer experience, provide flexible tooling for rapid innovation, scale development practices, and increase iteration speed for hundreds of mobile engineers working on apps with millions of lines of code and hundreds of modules.
Requirements
- Experience supporting large iOS or MacOS builds and Bonus: Bazel
- Experience in building command-line tools using python or bash
- Experience maintaining a high performance CI pipeline
- Strong knowledge of Swift and Bonus: SwiftUI
- Deep understanding of native mobile testing practices (unit, snapshot, and UI)
- Worked on and shipped large scale iOS applications or working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating infrastructure at a large-scale
- Bonus: Experience with AI, agentic programming, and AI tools (such as Cursor) that enhance developer experience and productivity.
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.
- Analyze systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and automation, including planning projects, assisting in prioritization, driving accurate estimations, and designing and leading architectural reviews to ensure performance, security, privacy, and maintainability.
- 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.
- 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.
- Identify, triage, debug, and resolve issues and bugs across various applications and tools.
Other
- Guide your own and the team’s 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.
- Write high-quality, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
- 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.
- Mentor junior engineers, support onboarding, participate in hiring processes or contribute to other engineering community investments.
