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The Find My team is dedicated to building a seamless, private, and secure experience for users to locate their devices, personal items, and share location with friends and family. We're a group of highly motivated engineers, designers, and product managers who are passionate about creating a simple and reliable experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We thrive in a fast paced environment where team members are often encouraged to wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of the product lifecycle. Innovation and creative problem-solving are at the heart of our team, and we constantly explore new approaches to deliver groundbreaking solutions while collaborating with diverse disciplines across the company, including hardware, software, and privacy, to deliver an exceptional user experience.
Description
As an engineer on our team, you'll thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, collaborating closely with a passionate team to achieve a shared mission and be instrumental in developing exciting new features, and your contributions will directly impact millions of users. We embrace continuous iteration and improvement, so you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and refine your skills as we build the future of Find My.
You'll be a core creator, contributor, and inventor. You'll create new system UI and features from our healthy roadmap, make steady improvements to our existing foundations, and build out new ideas and innovations. You'll leverage existing foundations, fill in the gaps with innovation and creativity, and build beautiful user interfaces that are backed by powerful frameworks and daemons.
Our ideal candidate is a self-starter looking for an exciting career opportunity and dream of shipping software solutions that impact millions of Apple users around the world. You're an experienced software engineer who is equally passionate about software development and software quality. This unique opportunity requires a balanced approach to delivering complex engineering projects with a team of highly skilled software engineers. Your responsibilities include working closely with multi-functional teams, acting as the technical point of contact, take ownership of problems and deliverables, lead engineering efforts, and organize engineering tasks to deliver the next generation of Find My features. Creative thinking, strong problem solving, excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with other multi-functional teams in a dynamic setting are meaningful attributes which will serve you well in this role.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of validated hands-on software engineering experience, with a proven track record of owning complex, end-to-end feature development - from requirements gathering and system design through release decisions and bug convergence - in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
Ability to take ownership, identify requirements, prioritize and make progress in an environment with limited given input
Strong Swift expertise - including but not limited to: Multithreading, non-blocking IO
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Ability to be in office Monday through Thursday
Preferred Qualifications
Strong understanding of common data structures and basic graph algorithms
Hands on experience writing strong object-oriented code including creating frameworks, modular and testable software
Experience in C, C++
Working knowledge of cryptography standards and protocols (e.g.. PKCS, KMIP, X.509, AES, KDF, CA)
Experience in the AI/ML domain
Very strong in leading others and hands-on in programming, system design, and problem solving
Experience driving release decisions, scoping work, and driving bug convergence
Experience in cross team collaboration and communication across multiple timezones
Able to work in an ambiguous and highly interdependent work environment to get things done in an efficient and tactful way
Ability to thrive in a multi-functional team on high-profile, critical projects
BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field