Apple

Summary

Posted: Mar 03, 2026

Weekly Hours: 37.5

Role Number:200649510

The Maps Web Apps team builds extraordinary maps experiences for the web, providing creative ways for our users to explore and discover the world around them. With our team's expertise, we help customers experience Apple Maps on the web — and beyond. Our team is hiring for a technically minded and communicative software engineer to assist in the development of Maps features across all of our web offerings. This is a phenomenal opportunity for a curious engineer to help expand the Apple Maps experience to delight customers on alternative platforms such as Windows and Android.

Description

As a lead web full-stack engineer, you will be responsible for planning and leading tasks for group of developers to ship high-quality features to our customers on a quarterly basis. You will also directly contribute software to our web products, including maps.apple.com as well as various web-powered experiences integrated into the Maps experience on iOS, macOS, and visionOS. You will use your deep experience to develop customer-facing features within our web applications, working with both frontend and server-side technologies. In this role you will also collaborate and communicate effectively with teams across Maps and Apple to plan, develop, and maintain our products. While working with engineers to plan and execute projects, you will closely communicate and manage key stakeholders: Engineering management, Product, and Human Interface design to deliver on time and at high quality. This role involves reviewing proposals, assessing their scale, risk, and importance, and providing recommendations on how to move forward. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional communication and leadership skills, a commitment to excellence, and a passion for innovation. You should bring a proactive mindset and a track record of delivering pixel-perfect, accessible user interfaces that surprise and delight as well as bring operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Partner with Design, Engineering, Services, Legal, Privacy, Security, Accessibility, Program, and Product teams to translate stakeholder needs into actionable technology solutions.
• Feature Development — Develop, launch, and maintain cross-platform features for our standalone website (maps.apple.com) and within the Maps app on iOS, macOS, and visionOS.
• Quality & Standards — Develop, test, deploy, and support frontend solutions that meet Apple's high standards for efficiency, functionality, accessibility, and user experience.
• Project Planning & Execution — Lead a group of engineers on projects: plan sprint stories, make technical decisions, and keep projects on track.
• Stakeholder Communication — Provide clear, regular status reports and proactively surface risks and progress updates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep frontend web development experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Web APIs, Node.js, HTML, and CSS
• End-to-end experience building and deploying large-scale web applications or interactive websites
• Strong understanding of front-end engineering, user experience, and interaction design
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Design, UX, and UI principles
• Familiarity with Swift and Objective-C
• High proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with flexibility to switch between languages
• Systematic troubleshooting and debugging mindset and experience
• Ability to break large features into smaller, high-quality deliverables
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Docker)
• Exposure to modern web technologies such as WASM, WebGPU, and canvas rendering
• A performance-first mindset — familiar with front-end optimization techniques such as lazy loading, code splitting, and minimizing render times
• Familiarity with Safari, Chrome, and Firefox browsers and their developer tools
• Experience consuming REST and gRPC APIs
• Experience with modern web frontend build and test tools

At Apple, we’re not all the same. And that’s our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced, and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. We will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations.