Apple

Swift Software Engineer, SWE Program Tools

Apple$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with Swift and SwiftUI or similar technologies
  • Ability to create and evaluate user-facing features with trade-offs
  • Skilled at devising technical solutions from ambiguous problems
  • Experience in self-initiated projects tackling real issues
  • Competency in developing and debugging AI-generated code
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Write, review, and maintain high-quality code
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions
  • Engage with users to enhance application usability
  • Iterate quickly on applications for continuous improvement
  • Adapt proven technical solutions across different projects
  • Transform ambiguous problems into actionable technical plans

Benefits

  • Strong emphasis on user experience and creative problem-solving
  • Opportunity for significant interaction with users and leaders
  • Continuous learning in a collaborative environment
  • Focus on adapting best practices in software engineering
  • Involvement in projects impacting thousands of employees
Full Job Description
Description

As an engineer on our team, you will iterate quickly to create, maintain, and improve applications that empower the day-to-day work of tens of thousands of Apple employees. You'll spend most of your time writing code, reviewing contributions from others, and collaboratively designing technical solutions.

We obsess over the user experience. We strongly value creative problem-solving and continuous improvement. When we find a great technical or process solution, we adopt and adapt it across our projects. Being disciplined about our day-to-day work gives us the freedom to respond flexibly and creatively to new challenges.

This role is for a passionate early-career engineer with strong problem-solving skills, commitment to quality, and ability to learn quickly on the job. Our work requires significant interaction with our users, cross-functional partners, and leaders across Apple, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are required in addition to technical skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Experience building, testing, and maintaining high-quality code in Swift and SwiftUI, or equivalent technologies

Experience creating a model-based user-facing feature, including driving a decision that shaped its behavior and making a cost, latency, or quality tradeoff based on your own evaluation

Proven experience turning an ambiguous problem into a strong technical approach and implementation, including deciding what was in and out of scope and coordinating priorities with others

Built and shared a project that no one assigned you, and can explain what problem you were solving and what you'd do differently next time

Regularly develops code using agentic AI coding tools, demonstrating the ability to critically review, verify, and debug AI-generated code

Excellent communication and collaborative skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing and building intuitive experiences for applications, with a focus on simplifying complex workflows

Experience maintaining high standards for both engineering practices (e.g., code review, testing strategies, CI/CD) and user-facing features (e.g., UI consistency, edge case handling, accessibility)

Experience identifying opportunities to improve developer or employee productivity through tooling, automation, or process improvements

Familiarity with Apple frameworks and development workflows

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.

Apple Careers

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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