iOS Tooling Engineer

Job 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 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 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. 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.

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