Apple

Summary

Posted: Jun 06, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200608083

Are you a die-hard Apple fan, living and breathing Apple products? Do you secretly promote Apple’s product design philosophy? 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 responsible for developing system level client frameworks. If the idea of your work and code reaching a billion users thrills you, we’d love to have you join our team. You’ll get to work on complex, exciting, and highly transparent products with endless opportunities to make a real difference.

Description

This is an opportunity to join a team with a goal of providing new features and functionality to iCloud customers by integrating together the client-device and cloud domains as well as provide an avenue for exploratory work as needed. Your work will involve everything from building simple-to-use User Interfaces and experiences to Client frameworks with performance and power efficiency in mind. You love collaborating within the team and equally meaningfully, with cross-functional engineering teams. In addition to crafting efficient, testable, easy-to-maintain code, you recognize the importance of writing functional specifications and design documents. As a key member on our team, you are responsible for maintaining our technology stack and for crafting new functionality. You are an extremely capable engineer who has a strong background in building high-performance, extensible systems. The successful applicant will have a strong background in system-level engineering, the vision to create foundational work and build on it to provide functionality, and the drive to successfully see tasks through to completion, Quality is number one in your mind, and you thrive on building comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests, not only for features you build but also for existing features that need more testing.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with iOS and/or Mac systems/application engineering, with a focus on framework development, as well as building pixel-perfect, complex, and accessible user interfaces/applications Objective-C and Swift.
• 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
• Our applications are complex and strong programming fundamentals are crucial. Whether you have a traditional CS degree or learned some other way, we’d love to talk with you.
• At Apple Cloud, we're very invested in your personal growth. We will work with you to define your career goals and help you get closer to them with mentorship, training and education.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Interest and experience working rich web applications using modern web technologies

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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.