iOS Engineer

Lyft; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyft is seeking an enthusiastic iOS app developer to join its Toronto team. The role involves writing scalable Swift code and collaborating with product managers to enhance development practices. Committed to creating an inclusive workforce, Lyft offers a hybrid working environment and various benefits to support employee well-being.

Benefits

Extended health and dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Flexible paid time off policy

18 weeks paid time off for new parents

Subsidized commuter benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Solid Swift knowledge and delivering high-quality code.
• Experience working with designers and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and needs.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code.
• Conduct high-quality code reviews and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Swift

Object-Oriented Programming

Code Quality

Collaboration

Mentorship

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.

To fulfill Lyft’s mission of creating the real-time transportation network of the future, Lyft needs engineers from a scope of disciplines. We need engineers to help us intelligently scale our backend infrastructure, to increase pricing in real time given localized supply and demand data, to predict future localized demand, to create delightful and intuitive UX flows for passengers and drivers, to improve our cloud infrastructure orchestration and monitoring, to increase dispatched driver-passenger pairings based on real-time data and real-world edge cases, to build tools to increase the efficiency of our customer service team, and more.

• You're an enthusiastic and experienced app developer looking to take your skills to the next level by joining our iOS team.
• You’re excited about scaling millions of lines of Swift code and hundreds of mobile developers.
• Our app is 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).

Responsibilities:

• Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Performing thoughtful code reviews for colleagues, and help others by conducting high-quality code reviews
• Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function
• Support junior members on the team through mentorship as well as code and technical reviews.

Experience:

• Delivering high-quality code
• Working closely with designers and product managers
• Solid Swift knowledge
• Bonus Points: contributions to open source projects, experience with declarative UI frameworks like SwiftUI, experience with unidirectional and reactive programming
• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
• Design, build and improve a set of team owned components

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