Senior Software Engineer - Video ; FX Plug API's

Position: Senior Software Engineer - Video Applications (FX Plug API's)
** Weekly

Hours:

** 40

** Role Number:*
* ** Summary*
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The Video Applications team delivers an integrated suite of professional video creation applications - including Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor - as part of Apple Creator Studio. We are seeking a strong Senior Software Engineer to empower our 3rd party development community by designing robust APIs that extend the capabilities of our applications, and providing technical support to our 3rd party developers.

** Description*
* As a Senior Software Engineer on the Motion team, you'll be the bridge between the core engineering team and our 3rd party developer ecosystem. You'll design and develop new FxPlug APIs that enable developers to create powerful new effects for Final Cut Pro and Motion, as well as maintaining the existing FxPlug APIs. You'll own the developer experience end-to-end-from API design to community engagement.
This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives on solving complex problems by creating clear and consistent developer-facing interfaces.

** Minimum Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

+ 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on application-level and framework development

+ Experience designing and maintaining public APIs or SDKs for external developers

+ 3+ years Proficiency in Objective-C and/or Swift

+ 3+ years Deep experience with macOS development and Apple frameworks

+ Advanced understanding of concurrency and cross-process communication

+ Proven ability to write clear, maintainable code with excellent documentation

+ Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

+ Experience working on complex, long-lived codebases

+ Familiarity with motion graphics and image processing algorithms and their implementation.

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + Experience designing and implementing Swift APIs

+ Strong programming skills in Swift and Objective-C

+ Hands-on experience with concurrency APIs and algorithms

+ Experience working in sandboxed or security-sensitive environments

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