Apple

Finder and Files Application Engineer

Apple • $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Technical lead experience with a large, shipping client application or framework
  • Deep object-oriented programming expertise
  • Mastery of at least one Apple UI framework
  • Proficient in using agentic coding tools for rapid prototyping

Responsibilities

  • Own the UI architecture for the Finder and Files clients
  • Collaborate with design from concept to final product
  • Define UI requirements with file systems and frameworks teams
  • Conduct design and code reviews; develop prototypes for feature risks
  • Mentor team engineers and enhance technical discussions
  • Advocate for agentic coding tools adoption
  • Address cross-team issues like responsiveness and data consistency

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment at Apple
  • Opportunities for mentoring and professional growth
  • Involvement in building widely-used consumer applications
  • Engagement in complex problem solving
  • Flexible development cycles to accommodate rapid prototyping
Full Job Description
Description

We build the Finder and Files applications on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.

To provide an exceptional experience, we work closely with file systems, frameworks, and applications teams.

We are looking for a senior engineer who will own the UI architecture of our applications, and who is eager to build consensus across the team and across Apple.

As the Finder and Files UI architect, you will own the architecture of a UI used every day by hundreds of millions of people, and shape the data model that feeds it. You will decide where the platforms share one foundation, and where they should diverge.

In this position you will:

Own the UI architecture of the Finder and Files clients: the view layer, and the state and data flow beneath it.

Partner with design from the first sketch to the shipped pixel, and turn interaction concepts into an architecture that can carry them across four platforms.

Work with the file systems and frameworks teams to define what the UI needs from the layers beneath it.

Set the engineering bar through design review, code review, and prototypes that de-risk the hardest parts of a feature before the team commits to it.

Mentor engineers on the team, and raise the level of technical debate.

Champion the use of agentic coding tools, and define how the team adopts them for rapid prototyping and large-scale code changes.

Diagnose and resolve the problems no single feature team owns: responsiveness at scale, correctness, and state that drifts out of sync.

You will work through rapid development cycles, remain flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty, showing your drive to deliver dependable software.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

8+ years of software engineering experience, including time as the technical lead for a large, shipping client application or framework

Deep object-oriented programming experience, and mastery of at least one Apple UI framework

Experience with leveraging agentic coding tools for high velocity prototyping and code changes

Preferred Qualifications

Experience architecting UI at scale: shared components, state, and data flow

Experience owning the architecture of a large, long-lived codebase

Excellent communication and collaborative skills in a highly collaborative environment

Ability to deeply analyze multi-client synchronization problems

Experience with file systems, cloud sync, or file provider architectures

Experience with building agentic harnesses

History of mentoring engineers and raising the technical depth of a team

Upbeat, adaptable, and results oriented with a positive attitude

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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