Apple's Visual Productivity Apps group is looking to reshape productivity software for tomorrow’s consumers and creators by building the future of iWork, Freeform, and other apps for visual creation.
Requirements
- Proficiency with Swift or Objective-C
- Proficiency in Python or another scripting language
- Skilled with object-oriented design
- Experience with Metal, CoreGraphics, or other 2D graphics environments
- Past experience building software for macOS
- Experience working in large industrial code bases with large teams
- Demonstrated skill at understanding non-technical users’ needs and developing appropriate solutions
Responsibilities
- Collaborate effectively with other engineers, human interface designers, localization teams, and content producers to brainstorm, prototype and ship tools that produce amazing content and deliver it effectively to devices across the world;
- Analyze workflows and suggest improvements, help to coordinate process changes, and make technical changes to our products and tools where needed;
- Produce documentation and provide other forms of support;
- Develop new interactions and visual capabilities that broaden our users’ capabilities and support their best work
- Make good use of documentation, IDEs, debuggers and other tools in understanding the large code base which forms the graphical and interaction underpinnings of our products
- Write easy-to-understand new code, and work to fix existing bugs and make architectural improvements that resist them;
- Keep the ultimate user in mind at all times, delighting them while supporting their best work.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Ability to communicate clearly-both verbally and in writing-and build trust across business lines
- Demonstrated experience planning and delivering software projects with and for cross-functional teams
- Collaborate closely with designers and production teams
- Work closely with other internal teams that love our products, and get fast feedback long before shipping to the App Store
