Senior Software Engineer - iOS

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Our Client Infrastructure team is dedicated to building software that addresses challenges at a large scale, ensuring that our mobile applications are stable, scalable, and efficient. As a Mobile Engineer on the Mobile Foundations team, you will create and maintain foundational systems that all Lyft mobile engineers rely on, enabling teams across Lyft to deliver rich experiences that connect people and places. You will build scalable infrastructure, helping developers move fast and innovate, while ensuring Lyft's mobile developer experience remains at the forefront. Your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering and contribute directly to Lyft's overall stability. Our apps are used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work, which means adhering to excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. Our codebase is written entirely in Swift, utilizing modern design patterns and coding standards. We rely on third-party libraries and actively contribute back to the community, including the Swift language itself. Who are you: You are an enthusiastic and experienced mobile developer looking to use your engineering skills to improve 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 of 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 are excited about scaling millions of lines of Swift code to hundreds of mobile developers. You take initiative to identify and improve processes and solve problems proactively. You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code with well-designed APIs, prioritizing clear design principles for reliability. You are passionate about collaborating with other teams and helping / supporting other iOS engineers. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain reliable mobile infrastructure, including networking, architecture, and UI frameworks ( Lyft Product Language and DeclarativeUI library), to enable Lyft iOS engineers to deliver high-quality mobile experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional partners (designers, Android engineers, Web engineers, and other Mobile Infrastructure teams) to strategically define the future of mobile UI and architecture, ensuring an innovative mobile developer experience at Lyft. Support iOS engineers from across the organization as they use the tools we build and leverage these interactions to improve our roadmaps and offerings. Bring new ideas to the table that aim to ease developer friction and keep our codebase joyful to develop in while continuously improving the codebase through refactoring. Stay current with iOS development and contribute to open-source projects like the Mobile Native Foundation and Hammer. Experience: Code Quality: 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. You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code, prioritizing clear design principles for reliability, and ensuring good code quality. Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling difficult challenges. A strong sense of ownership for the things you build and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellent presentation and documentation skills. Experience mentoring and supporting other Mobile Engineers. Demonstrated ability to lead a project from initial concept through to successful completion. Bonus Points: contributions to open source projects, experience with SwiftUI, experience with unidirectional and reactive programming. 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 area is $148,000-$185,000 USD. 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.