Staff iOS & macOS Software Engineer, Screen Time, System Experience

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff iOS & macOS Software Engineer to lead the Screen Time team in enhancing digital wellbeing features. This role involves collaborating with a vibrant team to shape user experiences that promote healthy habits across devices. As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle complex technical challenges, mentor junior engineers, and drive impactful solutions for billions of users. Join a forward-thinking organization where your contributions will significantly influence the future of personal computing and user wellbeing.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Discounted products and free services

Educational reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with SwiftUI/Swift or UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C.
• Strong technical leadership and critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Evolve technical vision for Screen Time and align with partner teams.
• Invest in the growth of junior engineers and distribute complex challenges.

Skills

SwiftUI

Swift

UIKit

AppKit

Objective-C

Technical Leadership

Critical Thinking

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Job description

Staff iOS & macOS Software Engineer, Screen Time, System Experience

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Feb 19, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200592178

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!

Description

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:

1. Evolving and realizing the technical vision for Screen Time and working cross-functionally to align on that vision with partner teams
2. Breaking down the most complex technical challenges into the right phases and abstractions so the work can be distributed across the team
3. 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.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
2. 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
3. Stellar engineering quality & output — you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with appropriate failure modes
4. Technical leadership — you exemplify “what good looks like” in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization
5. 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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 $207,800 and $312,200, 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.

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