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Finder Files Senior Software Engineer, UI Architect

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, California$184.7k - $324.8kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior engineer responsible for owning and directing the UI architecture of Finder and Files across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, partnering with design, platforms, and file systems to deliver a consistent, scalable, multi-platform UI.

Responsibilities

  • Own the UI architecture of the Finder and Files clients: the view layer, and the state and data flow beneath it.
  • Partner with design from the first sketch to the shipped pixel, and turn interaction concepts into an architecture that can carry them across four platforms.
  • Work with the file systems and frameworks teams to define what the UI needs from the layers beneath it.
  • Set the engineering bar through design review, code review, and prototypes that de-risk the hardest parts of a feature before the team commits to it.
  • Mentor engineers on the team, and raise the level of technical debate.
  • Champion the use of agentic coding tools, and define how the team adopts them for rapid prototyping and large-scale code changes.
  • Diagnose and resolve problems no single feature team owns: responsiveness at scale, correctness, and state that drifts out of sync.
  • Work through rapid development cycles, remain flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty, showing drive to deliver dependable software.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including time as the 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 with leveraging agentic coding tools for high velocity prototyping and code changes
  • Experience architecting UI at scale: shared components, state, and data flow
  • Experience owning the architecture of a large, long-lived codebase
  • Excellent communication and collaborative skills in a highly collaborative environment
  • Ability to deeply analyze multi-client synchronization problems
  • Experience with file systems, cloud sync, or file provider architectures
  • Experience with building agentic harnesses
  • History of mentoring engineers and raising the technical depth of a team
  • Upbeat, adaptable, and results oriented with a positive attitude

Skills

Required:UI architectureObject-oriented programmingCross-platform collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities via discretionary employee stock programs
  • eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
  • discounted Apple stock purchase plans
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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