Job description

As an Engineering Manager on the Platform Foundations team, you will collaborate with leaders across multiple engineering organizations at Apple, spanning UI layers to low-level OS infrastructure. You will build strong cross-functional partnerships while advocating for your team’s technical direction, priorities, and contributions. You will be responsible for project planning, execution, and resource allocation, ensuring your team consistently delivers high-quality solutions that delight customers around the world. Balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management, you will guide the development of innovative OS-level capabilities while supporting the growth and success of your engineers. Your team’s work underpins how features are built and delivered across the platform year after year, with a strong emphasis on quality, reliability, and performance. 2+ years of engineering management experience leading iOS, macOS, or systems-level development teams 7+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in C, Objective-C, or Swift Proven track record of shipping complex software products and/or frameworks Experience with concurrent programming and multi-threading Exceptional problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills Open-minded, strong collaboration skills, pro-active mindset Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Solid understanding of Apple development technologies including libdispatch, XPC - Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers - Experience developing public or private APIs

Requirements

Must-haves

Your team’s work underpins how features are built and delivered across the platform year after year, with a strong emphasis on quality, reliability, and performance.
2+ years of engineering management experience leading iOS, macOS, or systems-level development teams
7+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in C, Objective-C, or Swift
Proven track record of shipping complex software products and/or frameworks
Experience with concurrent programming and multi-threading
Exceptional problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
Open-minded, strong collaboration skills, pro-active mindset
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Solid understanding of Apple development technologies including libdispatch, XPC
Excellent understanding of optimization and performance issues across OS software layers
Experience developing public or private APIs

Nice-to-haves

None flagged.

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Keywords to mirror

swift

Platform: apple
Effort: medium