Work within our Mobile Tooling team and across the Lyft Mobile development community 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
Guide your own and the team’s projects from start to finish, ensuring cross-functional alignment and buy-in. Exhibit strong project management capabilities, overcoming obstacles, and gaining necessary stakeholder support. Inform the Lyft Mobile community of any changes to the systems you oversee
Analyze systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and automation, including planning projects, assisting in prioritization, driving accurate estimations, and designing and leading architectural reviews to ensure performance, security, privacy, and maintainability
Dive into and contribute to the source code of existing tools and the open-source technologies we build on, keeping up-to-date with Android 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 Android Studio, Android 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
Mentor junior engineers, support onboarding, participate in hiring processes or contribute to other engineering community investments
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
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