Senior iOS Software Engineer, Keyboard UI
Job Description
Summary
Are you passionate about the freeform input experience and possibilities enabled by the iPad Are you passionate about helping people communicate all over the world? The iOS Keyboard is one of the most-used software applications on the planet and is used to type billions of messages every day. We build the keyboard and text editing experience for iPhone & iPad, including features such as QuickType, QuickPath, Emoji, AutoFill, etc. as well as text input technologies on all Apple platforms—iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS—including frameworks and developer APIs.
We are looking for a creative and hardworking software engineer to help craft the next generation of Keyboard and Text Input experiences that are intuitive, personal, and inclusive of people all over the world, across many different languages and cultures, all while respecting each user’s privacy.
We are looking for a creative and hardworking software engineer to help craft the next generation of Keyboard and Text Input experiences that are intuitive, personal, and inclusive of people all over the world, across many different languages and cultures, all while respecting each user’s privacy.
Description
Our team collaborates with a world-class design team and hardworking engineers to innovate and deliver high-impact features that fuse best-in-class user interfaces with innovative machine learning technologies.
You will be responsible for a combination of software design exploration, implementation, and maintenance of cross-platform frameworks and applications. You will develop production-quality software while working through iterative development cycles and will partner with many teams at Apple to deliver best-in-class features such as Accessibility, Design, Hardware, Localization, Natural Language Processing, Privacy, etc.
You will be responsible for a combination of software design exploration, implementation, and maintenance of cross-platform frameworks and applications. You will develop production-quality software while working through iterative development cycles and will partner with many teams at Apple to deliver best-in-class features such as Accessibility, Design, Hardware, Localization, Natural Language Processing, Privacy, etc.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of software development experience in a team environment
- Experience with development of mobile or desktop apps or frameworks
- Exposure to modern software development standard methodologies, such as source control, unit testing, and/or debugging
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in building iOS apps using Apple’s UI frameworks
- Experience with Objective-C, C, Swift, or C++ programming
- Familiarity with software optimization and performance measurement tools
- Ability to effectively contribute to several concurrent projects
- Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion to improve Apple’s products
