Client Software Engineer - iOS/macOS - ASE

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Sep 18, 2024
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200568619
Are you a die-hard Apple fan, living and breathing Apple products? Do you secretly promote Apple’s product design philosophy? The iCloud Mail UX Engineering team is dedicated to crafting exceptional products and user experiences for iCloud Mail across iOS, macOS, and the Web. If the idea of your work and code reaching a billion users thrills you, we’d love to have you join our small team. You’ll get to work on complex, challenging, and highly visible products with endless opportunities to make a real difference.

DESCRIPTION

This is an opportunity to join a team with a goal of providing new features and functionality to iCloud customers by integrating together the client-device and cloud domains as well as provide an avenue for exploratory work as needed. Your work will involve everything from building simple-to-use User Interfaces and experiences to Client frameworks with performance and power efficiency in mind. You love collaborating within the team and equally importantly, with cross-functional engineering teams. In addition to crafting efficient, testable, easy-to-maintain code, you recognize the importance of writing functional specifications and design documents. As a key member on our team, you are responsible for maintaining our technology stack and for crafting new functionality. You are an extremely capable engineer who has a strong background in building high-performance, extensible systems. The successful applicant will have a strong background in system-level engineering, the vision to create foundational work and build on it to provide functionality, and the drive to successfully see tasks through to completion, Quality is number one in your mind, and you thrive on building comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests, not only for features you build but also for existing features that need more testing.

• 5+ years experience with iOS and/or Mac systems/application engineering, building pixel-perfect, complex, and accessible user interfaces/applications/frameworks Objective-C and Swift.
• Experience defining and integrating with Web Service APIs
• Inquisitive and highly-motivated self-starter and problem solver with a drive to integrate, communicate, and work well with large projects and teams.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building and maintaining high-performance systems and frameworks

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience integrating with OS services using XPC with a balanced understanding of security practices like privilege separation/escalation
• Demonstrated experience in influencing the architecture of backend systems, prioritizing user experience throughout the process.

EDUCATION

• Our applications are complex and strong programming fundamentals are essential. Whether you have a traditional CS degree or learned some other way, we’d love to talk with you.

• 5+ years experience with iOS and/or Mac systems/application engineering, building pixel-perfect, complex, and accessible user interfaces/applications/frameworks Objective-C and Swift.
• Experience defining and integrating with Web Service APIs
• Inquisitive and highly-motivated self-starter and problem solver with a drive to integrate, communicate, and work well with large projects and teams.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building and maintaining high-performance systems and framework