At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own developer community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft’s mobile infrastructure teams are responsible for creating & maintaining the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, polished and efficient apps. We relentlessly focus on the developer experience by providing engineers with flexible frameworks that allows them to innovate rapidly on our user experience. We are looking for enthusiastic engineers with experience building tools for iOS to create fast, reliable infrastructure.

As a part of the UI & Architecture team at Lyft, you will be involved in creating the design system and our unidirectional architecture that all Engineers use to develop at Lyft. You will be part of a team that ensures quality across all facets of the app. As a qualified candidate, you have a record of leading projects to successful outcomes for users and the business. You are a strong cross-functional partner having worked closely with designers, a great communicator, and above all, you approach problems holistically as a unified system.

Who are you:

• You're an enthusiastic and experienced app developer looking to use your iOS skills to create a consistent and predictable look & feel for all of our mobile products while improving developers' ability to ship new features quickly.
• You get excited about new swift features and compile improvements.
• You find delight in building the foundations and frameworks to accelerate the development by others, hiding away the complexities of the system.
• You are a diplomat who looks at the landscape and aligns engineers from different teams around a common pattern
• You’re excited about scaling millions of lines of Swift code and hundreds of mobile developers.
• Our apps are used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases.
• Our codebase is written entirely in Swift with modern design patterns and coding standards. We rely on 3rd party libraries and contribute back to the community (including the Swift language itself).

Watch some of our presentations:

• https://academy.realm.io/posts/slug-keith-smiley-embrace-immutability/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aDFEl8Qko
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18tEI7YdUtg4bL9yxv1Xjg

Open source contributions:

• https://mobilenativefoundation.org/
• https://eng.lyft.com/freezing-time-6ebe8ffe3321
• https://eng.lyft.com/using-mapper-to-parse-json-in-swift-7788d5c57d74
• https://github.com/lyft/Hammer
• https://envoy-mobile.github.io/

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with our cross-functional team and partners including designers, Android engineers, Web Engineers, and other Mobile Infrastructure teams to plan strategically and define the future of mobile design systems at Lyft.
• Advance Lyft’s design system, Lyft Product Language, and DeclarativeUI library.
• Help to continuously modernize our iOS architecture. 
• Inspire the team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table that aim to ease developer friction and keep our codebase joyful to code in. 
• Support iOS engineers from across the organization as they use the tools we build and leverage these interactions to improve our roadmaps and offerings. 
• Improve our code base through continuous refactoring.
• Extend and implement our APIs.
• Keep up-to-date with iOS development.
• The work responsibilities of this role are expected to take place during business hours in your local Time Zone in the United States.

 

Experience & Skills:

• Experienced in delivering high-quality code
• Experience working with designers and on internal developer productivity teams or projects
• Strong experience with Swift
• Experience with UIKit, declarative UI development and creating shared components
• Familiarity with current design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc)
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
• Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent presentation and documentation skills
• Bonus Points: contributions to open source projects, experience with SwiftUI, experience with unidirectional and reactive programming

 

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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 or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  

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, Wednesday and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

The expected range of pay for this position in the New York  area is $139,500 - $155,000. 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.