The Messages team is looking for an engineering manager to lead the team responsible for the on-device daemons, database, and sync infrastructure to safeguard Messages data and advance the app architecture.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of prior hands-on iOS or macOS application development.
- Experience with object-oriented programming
- A minimum of 2 years team management experience ideally leading teams developing iOS or macOS applications.
- At least 5 years of prior hands-on iOS or macOS application development.
- Experience with SQLite, CloudKit, or XPC.
- Specific experience defining and driving communication features.
Responsibilities
- leading the team of engineers focused on the on-device daemons, database, and sync infrastructure to safeguard Messages data.
- advance the app architecture
- lead the team of engineers focused on the on-device architecture that stores, vends, and syncs Messages data across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
- system daemon ownership
- database schema definition
- attachment storage and transcoding
- Messages in iCloud sync
Other
- Outstanding ability to identify and resolve sophisticated problems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across organizations.
- Empathetic leader who enjoys mentoring both junior and senior engineers and building diverse, hard-working, high-functioning teams.
- collaborate with peer managers on protocols, security, platform API, and user experience.
- work with the design team and other partners to define new features, coordinate engineering plans, prioritize and triage bugs, and deliver on one of the most used messaging apps in the world.
