Apple

Spotlight UI Engineer

Apple • $150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Fluent in Swift and Objective-C with a deep understanding of UIKit and AppKit
  • Experience in migrating large Objective-C codebases to Swift
  • Strong skill in writing clean, testable code across multiple platforms
  • Ability to synthesize complex technical issues in collaborative environments
  • Knowledge of SwiftUI interoperability with UIKit and AppKit

Responsibilities

  • Craft polished and reliable user experiences for diverse applications
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with product goals
  • Analyze complex multi-platform problems and propose effective solutions
  • Integrate deep system-level functionality into seamless user interfaces
  • Drive technical direction for the Spotlight UI team

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects used by billions of users
  • Collaborative and inclusive team culture bridging technical and non-technical expertise
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technologies and best practices in software development
  • Professional development opportunities through ongoing training and mentorship
Full Job Description
Description

The Spotlight UI team believes that the moment someone reaches for search, they deserve something that feels instant, intelligent, effortless, and personal. We craft the experience that sits between a person and everything on their device - through deep system integration, fluid presentations, and rich interactive previews. We ship to billions of devices.

Our codebase spans Swift and Objective-C across multiple platforms, requiring engineers who can navigate both languages fluently and work effectively across the full stack - from UI presentation to system-level integration.

We are looking for an experienced engineer who brings craft and rigor in equal measure. Someone who takes ownership of hard problems and communicates clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike. You will help translate between engineering constraints and product goals. You will help set the technical direction for the team.

Minimum Qualifications

Dedication to crafting polished, responsive, and reliable user experiences is a MUST!

Excelled in collaborative, cross-functional environments with both technical and non-technical partners

Successfully synthesized analysis of complex, multi-platform problems

SwiftUI interop with UIKit and AppKit

Deep UIKit and AppKit knowledge

Proficiency in both Swift and Objective-C

Prolific at writing clean and testable code

Preferred Qualifications

Incremental migration of large Objective-C codebases to Swift

Swift concurrency in production (async/await, actors, Sendable)

Performance analysis with Instruments

IPC mechanisms

Framework-level development shipping across iOS and macOS

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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$63.9 billion
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