iOS Tooling Engineer

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.


• 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 in one or more of the following: supporting large iOS or MacOS builds (Bonus: Bazel), building command-line tools using python or bash, or maintaining a high performance CI pipeline.


• Knowledge of Swift and Bonus: SwiftUI


• Understanding of native mobile testing practices (unit, snapshot, and UI)


• Worked on and shipped iOS applications


• 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:

• 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

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits


• Mental health benefits


• Family building benefits


• Child care and pet benefits


• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account


• RRSP plan to help save for your future


• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 


• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.


• Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

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 at least 3 days per week, including 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 Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.