Job Description

Locations

• Cupertino, California, United States 95014

Salary

Skills Required

• technical vision realizationintermediate
• cross-functional collaborationintermediate
• complex problem decompositionintermediate
• junior engineer mentoringintermediate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience (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 (experience, 10 years)
• Stellar engineering quality & output — you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with appropriate failure modes (experience)
• Technical leadership — you exemplify “what good looks like” in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization (experience)
• 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 (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Customer focus — you make high-quality, user-centric product decisions (experience)
• Platform API design — you’re proficient at designing, building, and supporting a platform, understanding customer needs and constraints (experience)
• Mentorship — you make everyone around you better and purposefully invest in the growth of your peers — especially junior engineers (experience)
• Drive for customer impact — you are deeply motivated to build the best essential user experiences for billions of users (experience)

Responsibilities

• 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:
• - Evolving and realizing the technical vision for Screen Time and working cross-functionality to align on that vision with partner teams
• - Breaking down the most complex technical challenges into the right phases and abstractions so the work can be distributed across the team
• - Purposefully and intentionally investing in the growth of junior engineers
• 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!

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