Senior Software Engineer, UI Architect

What you'll do

• Own the UI architecture, view layer, and underlying state and data flow for Finder and Files apps.
• Define the shared and unique data models across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS platforms.
• Translate design concepts into technical architectures that function consistently across multiple hardware interfaces.
• Collaborate with file systems and framework teams to define requirements for the underlying layers.
• Set engineering standards through rigorous code reviews, design reviews, and early prototyping to de-risk features.
• Resolve complex cross-team issues involving system responsiveness, data correctness, and state synchronization.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical debates to elevate the team's overall technical proficiency.
• Integrate agentic coding tools into the development workflow for rapid prototyping and large-scale code changes.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead for a large, shipping client application or framework.
• Deep object-oriented programming experience and mastery of at least one Apple UI framework.
• Experience leveraging agentic coding tools for high velocity prototyping and code changes.
• Experience architecting UI at scale, including shared components, state, and data flow (preferred).
• Experience owning the architecture of a large, long-lived codebase (preferred).
• Experience with file systems, cloud sync, or file provider architectures (preferred).
• History of mentoring engineers and raising the technical depth of a team (preferred).