Staff iOS & macOS Software Engineer, Screen Time
Job Summary
Job Description
As part of the System Experience team, you will help revolutionize how people use Apple devices by improving the digital wellbeing experience for all iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. This role involves collaborating with engineers, cross-functional teams, and designers to deliver top-tier system experiences. You will be responsible for evolving and realizing the technical vision for Screen Time, breaking down complex technical challenges, and mentoring junior engineers. Your work will directly impact billions of users by facilitating healthy habits and intentional boundaries on their devices.
Must have:
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of SwiftUI/Swift or UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C experience
- High-quality, performant, and maintainable code
- Technical leadership and mentorship
- Strong critical thinking and ability to influence
Good to have:
- Customer focus and user-centric product decisions
- Proficiency in platform API design
- Mentorship skills to develop peers
- Drive for customer impact
Perks:
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Tuition reimbursement for career advancement
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Relocation assistance
8 skills required
Job Details
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: - 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!
- 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
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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