Senior Software Engineer (Build and Automation) (Tinder LLC, West Hollywood, California)

Responsibilities

Define and own the long-term iOS build & automation strategy, including roadmap planning, deprecation plans, and architectural standards aligned with company-wide DevEx goals (10% of the time); Design and assist cross-team initiatives to standardize build, test, and CI practices across multiple iOS feature teams, driving adoption through documentation, tooling, and change management (10% of the time); Establish governance, metrics, and success criteria for build and automation systems, using data to influence leadership decisions on investment, tooling, and technical direction (5% of the time); Review and provide technical input on complex build, CI, and automation changes across the organization, setting best practices rather than executing day-to-day changes (10% of time); Develop, maintain, and enhance CI pipelines on iOS platforms, ensuring reliability and performance (10% of the time); Maintain and update build infrastructure to stay current with latest versions and industry standards using tools like Xcode and Bazel (5% of the time); Improve the reliability and performance of test and build processes to support rapid development cycles (10% of the time); Work with product and engineering teams to embed automated testing early into development lifecycles (10% of the time); Develop internal command-line tools and automation scripts that streamline day-to-day engineering workflows for the iOS team (10% of the time); Collaborate with iOS feature teams to understand feedback and roll out developer experience improvements that scale across the organization (5% of the time); Develop and maintain tooling and documentation to support for the third-party dependency integration (5% of the time); Develop scripts that take over repetitive manual tasks to increase developer productivity and focus on high-value engineering work (5% of the time); Build and develop dashboards and metrics pipelines to track critical KPIs such as build times, test flakiness, coverage, and developer productivity (5% of the time)

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as an iOS Build and Automation Engineer, iOS Software Engineer or any occupation, job title, position involving iOS development or mobile infrastructure engineering; In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as an iOS Build and Automation Engineer, iOS Software Engineer or any occupation, job title, position involving iOS development or mobile infrastructure engineering; Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience using Swift or Objective-C to build iOS applications or internal automation solutions; 1 year of professional experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications using Buildkite or Jenkins; 1 year of professional experience with iOS test automation frameworks including XCUITest and XCTest; 1 year of professional experience with iOS build systems including Xcode build or Bazel; 1 year of professional experience working with AI editors including Cursor and Codex and applying them to the use of local developer experience for iOS engineers; 1 years of professional experience working with xcodebuild and running the automation tests via browserstack or marathon labs