Engineering Manager, IOS Mobile Developer Experience

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

iOS Mobile Developer Experience (MDX) builds all necessary infrastructure and tools to ensure Square's iOS development can continue to be fast and efficient at scale. This is a high force multiplier team aiming to enhance the developer experience for all iOS developers at Square. Our focus is on improving both the local IDE and CI experience when working within our massive and modularized monorepo codebase. We do our work in the open, on GitHub, and progress can be seen in the Bazel-ios project on GitHub. You will lead a team of senior engineers responsible for our entire development stack (build system, build tools, CI platform, CI cluster in our data center).

The team works to accelerate our delivery of a fast and efficient developer experience with Bazel and with the maintainers of projects such as Workflow, CocoaPods, OSS Bazel rules, and KIF. They identify important performance bottlenecks in the development experience including the build system, IDE integrations, testing frameworks, pull request workflows, and amplifies the efficiency of our mobile developers to develop, test, and release apps to our merchants.

You Will

• Manage an outstanding team of experienced and passionate iOS engineers.
• Grow the team by hiring and developing engineers, promoting engineering decisions, and applying your technical and managerial expertise to constantly raise the bar.
• Establish the technical direction for the team and lead the team to achieve it.
• Collaborate across the broader Developer Experience team to provide a fast, easy, safe and consistent developer ecosystem for all engineers at Square.
• Shape, schedule & document team's work to ensure successful project execution.
• Participate in technical, design, and product discussions with teams across the organization.

You Have

• A computer science or engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent experience, including software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing, recruiting, and retaining engineering talent and growing teams.
• First hand experience building apps for iOS in Swift or Objective-C (preferably both).
• Preferably experience with:
  • Knowledge of build systems (preferably Bazel/Blaze/Buck).
  • Understanding of the building blocks used for producing iOS builds such as module maps, frameworks, VFS overlays, object files.
  • Experience supporting build or CI systems infrastructure at scale.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Languages: Ruby, Starlark, TypeScript, Swift, and Objective-C
• Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS,
• Other: AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build an inclusive workplace? Check out our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.