Apple devices have revolutionized how people live, connect, and work. It's not by chance! By thoughtfully blending intuitive, innovative system software with beautiful hardware, we design and build a uniquely delightful user experience. As the System Experience team, we lead the charge in building this experience.
Help us dramatically improve the experience of every iPhone, iPad, and Mac user who wants to manage digital wellbeing - adults, parents, teens, and children. Partner with an energetic, hard-working, fun team of engineers, cross-functional teams, and world-class designers to deliver the best system experiences on the planet.
We're the Screen Time team, and we exist to facilitate digital wellbeing whether you're a parent caring for your child, a teen looking to establish healthy habits, or an adult trying to be more intentional about your boundaries. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to help lead our team as it builds and ships the next generation of digital wellbeing features at Apple.
At Apple, we've created the most compelling personal computing devices in human history. We want these devices to promote the overall wellbeing of our customers - especially children - by facilitating healthy experiences on their devices. Our challenge is to deliver an experience that is simple to use and understand even as our system's features get more advanced.
As a Staff Engineer on the Screen Time team, your responsibilities will include:
The implications of succeeding in this role are huge - together, we have the agency to shape healthy habits for billions of people now and into the future! Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience Track record of success - you have 10+ years of SwiftUI/Swift or UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C software engineering experience with impact to show for it Stellar engineering quality & output - you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with appropriate failure modes Technical leadership - you exemplify "what good looks like" in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization Critical thinking with influence - you systematically evaluate the tradeoffs associated with each potential solution to a problem, make an informed decision, and articulate these things well to influence others, driving impact Customer focus - you make high-quality, user-centric product decisions Platform API design - you're proficient at designing, building, and supporting a platform, understanding customer needs and constraints Mentorship - you make everyone around you better and purposefully invest in the growth of your peers - especially junior engineers Drive for customer impact - you are deeply motivated to build the best essential user experiences for billions of users
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There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.