Senior Swift Software Engineer, Employee Engagement Engineering
Cork, Munster, Ireland · Senior · Posted
About the role
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise
and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems
and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple
does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central
nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions
of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life
running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love
building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what
you could do here. Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T
and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity
technology and services across Apple — from tools that enable collaboration to
the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user
experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original
content studios. Within this team is Employee Engagement & Engineering, a small,
global team that quickly delivers with long-term vision, building durable,
reliable systems meant to last. Our focus is on crafting high-quality,
user-centred experiences — delivering AI and system interoperability to make
every interaction intuitive, seamless, and genuinely useful for the people who
rely on our tools.
DESCRIPTION
You collaborate with a small team on the technical strategy for how native
applications are imagined, built, integrated, and evolved across our platforms.
You shape multi-year direction for the team's platform architecture, establish
engineering practices that raise the quality bar, and lead the resolution of the
most complex challenges — those that span multiple systems and carry broad
impact on the employee experience. You collaborate directly with leadership, and
represent the team in cross-functional technical forums. You are expected to
grow the next generation of engineers through mentorship, well crafted code, and
technical leadership by example. Your influence defines how the platform evolves
and how applications are experienced by thousands of Apple employees worldwide.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Deep proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, with demonstrated experience shipping
polished, production applications on macOS, iOS, or iPadOS Demonstrated ability
to define and drive technical strategy across multiple application domains
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including setting technical
direction, resolving cross-system architectural challenges, and influencing
engineering practices at a team or organizational level
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Experience with AI integration patterns and platform interoperability at an
architectural level Deep understanding of user experience quality — you set the
bar for how applications should feel History of driving technical innovation
with broad adoption across a team or organisation Experience shaping engineering
culture around quality, inclusion, and technical growth Deep familiarity with
Apple's AI frameworks (Core ML, Foundation Models, MLX) and system integration
capabilities (App Intents, extensions) Record of successful cross-functional
influence at a senior level Experience with globally distributed teams and
asynchronous collaboration at scale Record of successful cross-functional
influence at a senior level Experience with globally distributed teams and
asynchronous collaboration at scale