Front End SW Engineer - iOS / Web - iCloud

Apple•San Diego, CA

About The Position

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 being responsible for developing system-level client frameworks. This role offers the opportunity to join a team focused on providing new features and functionality to iCloud customers by integrating client-device and cloud domains. The work involves building user interfaces, experiences, and client frameworks with performance and power efficiency in mind. Collaboration with internal and cross-functional teams is essential. Responsibilities include maintaining the technology stack, crafting new functionality, writing functional specifications and design documents, and ensuring quality through comprehensive unit and end-to-end testing.

Requirements

7+ 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Provide new features and functionality to iCloud customers by integrating together the client-device and cloud domains.
Develop system level client frameworks.
Build simple-to-use User Interfaces and experiences.
Develop Client frameworks with performance and power efficiency in mind.
Collaborate within the team and with cross-functional engineering teams.
Craft efficient, testable, easy-to-maintain code.
Write functional specifications and design documents.
Maintain the technology stack.
Craft new functionality.
Build comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests for existing and new features.