Apple Inc. - Front End SW Engineer - iOS / Web - iCloud

Are you an Apple fan, living and breathing Apple products? Do you obsess over the customer experience and strive to surprise and delight your users? The iCloud Mail, Calendar & Contacts Client Engineering team is dedicated to crafting exceptional products and user experiences for iCloud Mail across iOS, macOS, and the Web, as well as developing system-level client frameworks. If the idea of your work and code reaching a billion users thrills you, we'd love to have you join our team.

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 providing 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 meaningfully, 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 of 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. Our applications are complex, and strong programming fundamentals are crucial. Whether you have a traditional CS degree or learned some other way, we'd love to talk with you.

At Apple Cloud, we're very invested in your personal growth. We will work with you to define your career goals and help you get closer to them with mentorship, training, and education.

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience integrating with OS services using XPC with a healthy understanding of security practices like privilege separation/escalation.
• Demonstrated experience in influencing the architecture of backend systems, prioritizing user experience throughout the process.
• Experience with native framework development.
• 3+ years experience with iOS/macOS and/or web application engineering, designing and building pixel-perfect, complex, and accessible user interfaces/applications.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of software design patterns and software development.
• Comfortable navigating and exploring large code bases.
• Excellent collaboration skills, including the ability to drive discussions to align large cross-functional teams and demonstrating ownership.