Company Description
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.
Job Description
The iOS Developer Experience team builds all necessary infrastructure and tools to ensure Block'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 Block. Our focus is on improving both the local IDE and CI experience when working within our massive and modularized monorepo codebase. You'll be delivering improvements to our CI pipelines, working within our Bazel-based infrastructure, and building local iOS focused tooling.
You Will:
- Accelerate our delivery of a fast and efficient iOS developer experience with Bazel.
- Amplify the efficiency of our iOS developers to develop, test, and release apps to our customers.
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in the iOS development experience.
- Optimize the performance and usability of our build tooling.
- Help determine the scope and the priorities of the team by identifying opportunities to decrease build times, reduce system complexity, and improve the developer experience.
- Oversee the success of our team's projects, and achieve quantifiable results.
Qualifications
You have:
- A passion for accelerating the development velocity of other engineers and improving their developer experience.
- Experience leading projects that increase developer velocity.
- Experience working with build and CI tools (Jenkins, BuildKite, fastlane, etc).
- Excellent software engineering knowledge and the ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance.
Even better if you have experience with the following:
- Bazel/Blaze/Buck build systems.
- Reverse engineering Xcode, macOS, or iOS software.
- iOS/Mac development languages (Swift, Objective-C) and tooling (xcodebuild, clang, swift, ld, actool, ibtool, and codesign).
- Starlark, Python, and Ruby.
Qualifications
You have:
- A passion for accelerating the development velocity of other engineers and improving their developer experience.
- Experience leading projects that increase developer velocity.
- Experience working with build and CI tools (Jenkins, BuildKite, fastlane, etc).
- Excellent software engineering knowledge and the ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance.
Even better if you have experience with the following:
- Bazel/Blaze/Buck build systems.
- Reverse engineering Xcode, macOS, or iOS software.
- iOS/Mac development languages (Swift, Objective-C) and tooling (xcodebuild, clang, swift, ld, actool, ibtool, and codesign).
- Starlark, Python, and Ruby.
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.
Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.
Why Work With Us
Across our ecosystem, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.
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