Senior Mobile DevOps (full-stack), Mobile

Senior Mobile DevOps (full-stack), Mobile

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote (Canada)

Reporting To: Andre Cytryn

Compensation: $157,000 - $168,000 / year

Description

We are hiring a Senior Mobile DevOps to join our Rider Experience Team!
Our Spare headquarters is located in Vancouver, BC, but this position is open to remote work options within Canada. Unfortunately, at this time, we are not able to hire outside of Canada.

As a Senior Mobile DevOps in the Rider Experience Team you will...

Development & DevOps Expertise: 

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines for iOS and Android using tools like CircleCI, EAS, or GitHub Actions;
• Implement and maintain automated testing strategies, including unit, visual regression, and end-to-end testing, to ensure application robustness.
• Contribute to both frontend and backend development as needed, leveraging technologies on our stack such as React Native (Expo), React, and Node.js;
• Automate Localization Processes: Develop and maintain automated workflows for localization and translation tools, ensuring seamless updates to localized content.

Operational Excellence: 

• Establish comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems for mobile app performance and reliability using tools like Firebase and Sentry;
• Manage and improve the app release process for all our apps leveraging tools like Fastlane and EAS, and building bespoke tools as needed to support our white-labeled apps.
• Join our mobile on-call SRE team: After an initial ramp-up period where you become comfortable with your core responsibilities, contribute to our mobile on-call Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, ensuring the reliability and performance of our mobile applications.
• Maintain Mobile Push Notifications: Oversee the setup, maintenance, and optimization of mobile push notifications, ensuring reliable and targeted delivery across iOS and Android.

About this role✨

In this role, you will...

Leadership & Mentorship: 

• Mentor and guide developers of all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration, and drive improvements in the codebase, ensuring best practices are followed and high standards are maintained;
• Foster technical leadership: Take on a leadership role within the team, guiding discussions on architecture, technical challenges, and process improvements, driving initiatives to enhance development efficiency and code quality.

Process & Infrastructure Improvement: 

• Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, documentation, and methodologies;
• Manage the configuration and maintenance of development and production environments, ensuring security, reliability and scalability of our applications.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: 

• Collaborate with other development teams to establish best practices and frameworks that support efficient and effective mobile app development across all contributors;
• Work closely with Product, Design, and QA teams to align on goals and deliver high-impact solutions that enhance the overall user experience.

About you ✨

• Extensive Experience in Mobile Development & DevOps: You have 4+ years of professional experience developing and deploying mobile apps using React Native, with a strong understanding of DevOps practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and performance monitoring;
• Proven Track Record in Shipping Scalable Mobile Apps: You have successfully delivered high-quality mobile applications to both Apple App Store and Google Play Store at scale, and are well-versed in managing app store submissions, versioning, release and rollback strategies;
• Technical Leadership & Problem Solving: You have led and taken ownership of complex projects, engaged in architectural discussions, and proposed innovative solutions while clearly communicating technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You excel at working closely with teams across Product, Design, and QA, ensuring alignment and driving successful project outcomes. You are skilled at understanding the needs of other developers and improving their ability to contribute effectively;
• Startup Mindset & Adaptability: You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and have a proven ability to adapt and excel in a tech startup setting, embracing new challenges and opportunities for growth;
• Passion for Developer Experience: You are committed to creating a seamless and empowering developer experience, proactively seeking to identify and remove roadblocks, and championing best practices that enable all teams to build, test, and release with confidence.

Nice to haves include:

• Experience developing and deploying multiple white-label apps;
• Ability to write scripts in languages like Bash or Ruby to automate workflows and improve efficiency;
• Knowledge of optimizing mobile app performance, including reducing load times, improving FPS, and managing memory effectively;
• Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG, ADA, Section 508, or EAA.

About the Mobile Team✨

The Rider Experience Team works on improving and deploying new features for our Rider app. The Rider app is used by customers who want to book an on-demand mobility ride using our platform. We "white label” our rider apps to brand them individually for each of our transit agency customers. We focus on providing the best experience for riders making sure they have the best options to move from A to B, with a strong emphasis on accessibility and ease of use.

Benefits

• Purposeful work: Be a part of a mission-driven company that is solving real-world problems and improving the lives of people around the world. Learn more about the impact we're making in our 2023 Global Impact Report!
• Growth Opportunities: Spare is growing fast and there is uncapped potential for rapid advancement of motivated high performers on our team! 🚀
• Market-competitive pay: We benchmark roles annually to attract and retain top talent. For Growth roles, we also offer a competitive commission/bonus structure that rewards strong performance. 
• Stock options: Enjoy the feeling of ownership. All Spartians are provided stock options, so you can share in the growth and success of Spare!
• Flexible work: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, in your own time zone. 
• In-office collaboration: If you're in Metro Vancouver, you have the option to work out of our HQ located downtown, close to Waterfront Station. If you're located elsewhere, you'll have access to CA$200/month to spend on a coworking membership to work together with team members in your city.
• Home office allowance: We recognize the importance of a productive home office setup to help you do your best work, which is why we provide a CA$1,000 home office allowance.
• Team offsites & socials: We love the flexibility of remote work, and we also value the importance of in-person connection. Each team has an annual budget for travel and accommodations to get together for a team offsite or hackathon. Plus you have access to a CA$50 monthly budget to socialize with other Spartians in your city - go out for a meal or hit up a karaoke spot!
• Health insurance: We offer a fully-paid health insurance package for you and your dependents that includes prescription drug, paramedical, mental health, dental, life insurance, travel insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Lifestyle Spending Account: We offer CA$500 per year Lifestyle Spending Account (taxable benefit), which you can use to get reimbursed for a variety of expenses including education, wellness, transportation, and childcare/pet care.
• Paid time off: Along with your three weeks of annual vacation, we offer unlimited sick days and have company-wide shut-down days to help you rest and recharge.
• Parental leave top-up: Top up of up to 80% for 15 weeks to help you adjust to the new addition to your family!

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