API Review & Design Engineer
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Job Location:
Cupertino, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our team provides API design guidance consulting and outreach to framework engineering teams to support the development of consistent complete and intuitive APIs. We establish and maintain API guidelines for our operating systems and review the design of software programming interfaces to ensure comprehensive access to platform functionality is available through Apples SDKs. The team also reviews the needs of Apple applications to identify missing functionality in the SDKs and recommends and tracks API additions to fill identified help us refine and implement this mission. Ours is a small team with a broad reach so you will have an opportunity to specialize in responsibilities best suited to your strengths. This roles primary focus is to help engineering teams design public-facing frameworks through activities such as:-- Advising framework teams to help transform feature plans and underlying technologies into well-architected developer-focused APIs-- Evaluating proposals and providing concrete feedback on ergonomics consistency with guidelines and precedents and interaction with other parts of the developer experience-- Evangelizing and teaching new Swift features and framework-development guidelines to Apple engineering teams-- Assessing API coverage and completeness and identifying areas where additional interfaces are neededIdentifying salient points from API Review discussions and new SDK releases to expand and improve on published API Guidelines-- Working with other Apple teams to integrate organizational goals-- Participating in the stewardship and evolution of Apples software quality efforts and processes
- 5-10 years experience working in software development in Swift or Objective-C
- A strong understanding of software architecture and API design
- Strong written and presentation skills able to communicate effectively with engineers and senior leaders
- Proven ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- Hard-working with the ability to work autonomously
Key Skills
- Graduate Engineering
- Corporate Risk Management
- Adobe Photoshop
- Big Data
- Clinical
- Asic
About Company
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