IOS & macOS Software Engineer, Screen Time
Listed on 2025-12-24
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Software Development
Software Engineer
Staff iOS & macOS Software Engineer, Screen Time
Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services
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.
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 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:
- Evolving and realizing the technical vision for Screen Time and working cross-functionality to align on that vision with partner teams
- Breaking down the most complex technical challenges into the right phases and abstractions so the work can be distributed across the team
- 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!
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
- Track record of success — you have 10+ years of Swift
UI/Swift or UIKit/App Kit/Objective-C software engineering experience with impact to show for it - Stellar engineering quality & output — you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with appropriate failure modes
- Technical leadership — you exemplify “what good looks like” in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization
- 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
- Customer focus — you make high-quality, user-centric product decisions
- Platform API design — you’re proficient at designing, building, and supporting a platform, understanding customer needs and constraints
- Mentorship — you make everyone around you better and purposefully invest in the growth of your peers — especially junior engineers
- Drive for customer impact — you are deeply motivated to build the best essential user experiences for billions of users
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 $212,000 and $318,400, 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…
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