API Review u0026 Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

79d

About The Position

Our small, outstanding team in Apple's Software Engineering division is chartered to help framework teams throughout the company ensure the Apple developer experience is just as carefully crafted as Apple's end-user hardware and software products. We're looking for someone who's passionate about software design and excited to play a key role in organizing multi-functional projects. As a member of our team, you'll have a unique opportunity to help shape the technologies that inspire developers around the world and empower them to realize their dreams. Our team provides API design guidance, consulting, and outreach to framework engineering teams to support the development of consistent, complete, and intuitive APIs. We establish and maintain API guidelines for our operating systems and review the design of software programming interfaces to ensure comprehensive access to platform functionality is available through Apple's SDKs. The team also reviews the needs of Apple applications to identify missing functionality in the SDKs and recommends and tracks API additions to fill identified gaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Hard-working with the ability to work autonomously

Responsibilities

• Advising framework teams to help transform feature plans and underlying technologies into well-architected, developer-focused APIs
• Evaluating proposals and providing concrete feedback on ergonomics, consistency with guidelines and precedents, and interaction with other parts of the developer experience
• Evangelizing and teaching new Swift features and framework-development guidelines to Apple engineering teams
• Assessing API coverage and completeness and identifying areas where additional interfaces are needed
• Identifying salient points from API Review discussions and new SDK releases to expand and improve on published API Guidelines
• Working with other Apple teams to integrate organizational goals
• Participating in the stewardship and evolution of Apple's software quality efforts and processes

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees