
Lyft
Staff Software Engineer
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Job Description
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. 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 Android 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
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Experience supporting large Android builds and Bonus: Bazel
- Experience in building command-line tools using python or bash
- Experience maintaining a high performance CI pipeline
- Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Bonus: Jetpack Compose
- Deep understanding of native mobile testing practices (unit, snapshot, and UI)
- Worked on and shipped large scale Android applications or working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating infrastructure at a large-scale
- 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
- You have helped build teams that are motivated and value a strong sense of ownership and you have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$176,000 – $220,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
2 days ago
Country
US