Sr. Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering - Swift Client Library

Developers working on Apple Products rely on Apple Frameworks every day for productivity and integration with the Apple ecosystem. For a great developer experience, we are continually enhancing and improving our client-side frameworks. We are seeking a developer to build abstractions and help build developer-friendly, on-device libraries which encourage best practices for both device and cloud efficiency.

Description

We're looking for a developer who enjoys building foundations for other developers. The iCloud Developer Experience team collaborates with framework and tool engineers across Apple, works to understand their needs, and builds shared frameworks for them to use. We provide consultation and code for those making user interfaces, code generators, cloud services, and all the pieces in between.

This position requires a highly creative individual who can critically listen to the diverse visions and concerns of multiple teams, synthesize and iterate on common solutions, and collaborate with teams to adopt them. Implementing this common infrastructure not only affects design decisions on developer-facing tools, but also future products across the Apple ecosystem. As Developer Experience engineer, your primary development environment will be the Xcode

IDE.","responsibilities":"Spend a majority of your time programming in Swift and some Objective C

Collaborate through design meetings, git pull requests, in-person conversations, and Slack

Ideate, prototype, and build high-level abstractions across existing frameworks

Make customer-focused product design decisions with your teammates

Provide technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship

Demonstrate and articulate how to write clean, testable, and maintainable code

Be comfortable collaborating with a positive attitude in a diverse environment with multiple teams

Have built reusable libraries with practical abstractions to encourage reuse and future-proof designs

Has strong opinions about the way software is engineered, and deeply understands object-oriented design

Desire to find simpler solutions to existing complex problems and workflows

Have the ability to work closely with UI designers and implement great looking designs

Be experienced writing concurrent and asynchronous code

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a participant or owner of a high-volume open-source software repository

Good communication and personal skills, ability to interact and work well with members of other functional groups in a project team, and a strong sense of project ownership

Experience writing code generation templates/tools

Serverless/FAAS experience

Thrives in an environment where you have to learn new skills and technologies constantly

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent experience

5+ years of industry experience in developing high-quality software

3+ years of experience in developing tools, libraries, and frameworks

Expert in Swift programming

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience with CI/CD along with the tools that support these

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