Swift Software Engineer, Productivity Apps

Apple • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

Do you want to advance the state of the art in collaboration and reshape consumer productivity software? The Productivity Apps Collaboration Team is responsible for delivering world-class collaboration experiences in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform. We support Apps teams building collaborative experiences by designing and implementing new collaboration, persistence, and syncing APIs. This is a highly cross-functional team that works closely with teams across Apple to advance the state of the art on the platform.The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, self-motivated, with a passion for writing performant, reliable, and maintainable code. Our team is entrusted with keeping our users' documents and data safe and ensuring that real-time collaborative edits are saved without conflicts. Your contributions will have a major impact on well-established but fast-moving software used and loved by millions of people to get things done at home, in their communities, and in their jobs. The Productivity Apps Collaboration team is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer who is passionate about building collaborative experiences, persistence, and syncing. As a member of our team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining collaboration solutions to enhance our products and services.

Requirements

• Proficiency with Swift or Objective-C, or a related language (2+ years)
• Proficiency in object-oriented design and development (2+ years)
• Experience with multi-threaded and concurrent programming (2+ years)
• Experience working in large code bases
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering software projects with and for cross-functional teams
• Ability to communicate clearly—both verbally and in writing—and build trust across business lines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related subject area, or we may consider an equivalent industry experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience building collaborative software systems
• Experience building APIs or frameworks
• Experience with CloudKit, iCloud, and Apple platform technologies
• Experience with Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (state and operation-based)
• Background in relational databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL, Core Data, etc.)
• Experience optimizing performance with memory, scheduling, IO, networking protocols, or databases

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cross-functional engineering and interface design teams to define requirements
• Design, implement, and maintain high-quality, testable, maintainable, performant software for collaboration, persistence, and syncing
• Diagnose and fix bugs
• Participate in architecture and code reviews
• Communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Continuously learn and implement new technologies, tools, and best practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees