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Swift Software Engineer, Productivity Apps

Apple
Vancouver, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/28/2026 CLOSED ON 2/26/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Swift Software Engineer, Productivity Apps position at Apple?

Summary

Do you want to advance the state of the art in collaboration and reshape consumer productivity software? The Productivity Apps Collaboration Team is responsible for delivering world-class collaboration experiences in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform. We support Apps teams building collaborative experiences by designing and implementing new collaboration, persistence, and syncing APIs. This is a highly cross-functional team that works closely with teams across Apple to advance the state of the art on the platform.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, self-motivated, with a passion for writing performant, reliable, and maintainable code. Our team is entrusted with keeping our users’ documents and data safe and ensuring that real-time collaborative edits are saved without conflicts. Your contributions will have a major impact on well-established but fast-moving software used and loved by millions of people to get things done at home, in their communities, and in their jobs.

Description

The Productivity Apps Collaboration team is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer who is passionate about building collaborative experiences, persistence, and syncing. As a member of our team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining collaboration solutions to enhance our products and services.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with cross-functional engineering and interface design teams to define requirements
  • Design, implement, and maintain high-quality, testable, maintainable, performant software for collaboration, persistence, and syncing
  • Diagnose and fix bugs
  • Participate in architecture and code reviews
  • Communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Continuously learn and implement new technologies, tools, and best practices

Minimum Qualifications

  • Proficiency with Swift or Objective-C, or a related language (2 years)
  • Proficiency in object-oriented design and development (2 years)
  • Experience with multi-threaded and concurrent programming (2 years)
  • Experience working in large code bases
  • Demonstrated experience planning and delivering software projects with and for cross-functional teams
  • Ability to communicate clearly—both verbally and in writing—and build trust across business lines
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related subject area, or we may consider an equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building collaborative software systems
  • Experience building APIs or frameworks
  • Experience with CloudKit, iCloud, and Apple platform technologies
  • Experience with Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (state and operation-based)
  • Background in relational databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL, Core Data, etc.)
  • Experience optimizing performance with memory, scheduling, IO, networking protocols, or databases

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.

Salary : $147,400 - $272,100

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