Xcode Engineering Manager
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Location: Cupertino, CA 95014
Description:
Summary
Do you want to improve the developer tools used by millions of engineers to make amazing applications? Join us on the Xcode team. We're looking for a hands on technical engineering manager to lead Xcode's Infrastructure team. The Infrastructure team enables all of the Xcode components to work together, from the navigator, to the editor, and through the build, to the devices and simulators and into the debugger.
Every team member brings unique skills and perspective. Far more than any specific technical background, we're looking for engineers with leadership experience, a passion for the craft of building great software, and someone who loves to learn and develop their skills and the skills of the engineers around them.
You'll find that we:
- Have a wide range of experience, from engineers who've just joined to those who've thrived at Apple their whole careers
- Provide a peaceful work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to close your office door and focus
- Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture
- Value integrity and respect for others, and take the safety and comfort of our employees seriously
Description
As the engineering manager of the Xcode Infrastructure team, you'll select features and prioritize quality investments. You'll guide your team to make optimal decisions balancing risk, reward, growth, short and long term goals. You'll act as a role model demonstrating responsible, pragmatic, and innovative problem solving techniques. You'll represent your team cross functionally, working with other teams across Apple as we advance our tools and SDKs. You'll integrate new SDK features into Xcode enabling exciting new features in Apple products. You'll have the opportunity to inspire changes across our developer tools, with a particular focus on productivity, efficiency and reliability within our tools.
You'll be most successful as a hands-on manager and technical lead by being an example to your team through direct engineering contributions. You'll mentor the engineers around you, helping them grow and become experts in our field. You'll thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and ambitious problems to tackle. You'll use judgment and integrity to make timely, sound decisions. You'll have constructive design discussions, learn from your team, and use your experience to guide and teach others.
At Apple, you'll have access to the engineers who create Apple's frameworks, tools, and operating systems stack, bringing an incredible amount of knowledge, clarity, and context to the features you'll build. In developer tools, you'll have the unique opportunity to directly improve your development environment by building features for the tools you'll use every day.
As an engineering manager on the Xcode team, your primary contribution will be:
- Wholistically prioritizing, scoping, scheduling, and developing features with both Swift and Objective-C
- Balancing organization, department, and team goals when prioritizing software changes
- Helping engineers thrive and progress in their career
- Refining customer-focused designs with teammates
- Improving performance, fixing bugs, and writing tests
- Investigating feedback from users in your areas of responsibility
- Collaborating through pull requests, in-person conversations, and Slack
- Providing technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship
Do you want to improve the developer tools used by millions of engineers to make amazing applications? Join us on the Xcode team. We're looking for a hands on technical engineering manager to lead Xcode's Infrastructure team. The Infrastructure team enables all of the Xcode components to work together, from the navigator, to the editor, and through the build, to the devices and simulators and into the debugger.
Every team member brings unique skills and perspective. Far more than any specific technical background, we're looking for engineers with leadership experience, a passion for the craft of building great software, and someone who loves to learn and develop their skills and the skills of the engineers around them.
You'll find that we:
- Have a wide range of experience, from engineers who've just joined to those who've thrived at Apple their whole careers
- Provide a peaceful work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to close your office door and focus
- Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture
- Value integrity and respect for others, and take the safety and comfort of our employees seriously
Description
As the engineering manager of the Xcode Infrastructure team, you'll select features and prioritize quality investments. You'll guide your team to make optimal decisions balancing risk, reward, growth, short and long term goals. You'll act as a role model demonstrating responsible, pragmatic, and innovative problem solving techniques. You'll represent your team cross functionally, working with other teams across Apple as we advance our tools and SDKs. You'll integrate new SDK features into Xcode enabling exciting new features in Apple products. You'll have the opportunity to inspire changes across our developer tools, with a particular focus on productivity, efficiency and reliability within our tools.
You'll be most successful as a hands-on manager and technical lead by being an example to your team through direct engineering contributions. You'll mentor the engineers around you, helping them grow and become experts in our field. You'll thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and ambitious problems to tackle. You'll use judgment and integrity to make timely, sound decisions. You'll have constructive design discussions, learn from your team, and use your experience to guide and teach others.
At Apple, you'll have access to the engineers who create Apple's frameworks, tools, and operating systems stack, bringing an incredible amount of knowledge, clarity, and context to the features you'll build. In developer tools, you'll have the unique opportunity to directly improve your development environment by building features for the tools you'll use every day.
As an engineering manager on the Xcode team, your primary contribution will be:
- Wholistically prioritizing, scoping, scheduling, and developing features with both Swift and Objective-C
- Balancing organization, department, and team goals when prioritizing software changes
- Helping engineers thrive and progress in their career
- Refining customer-focused designs with teammates
- Improving performance, fixing bugs, and writing tests
- Investigating feedback from users in your areas of responsibility
- Collaborating through pull requests, in-person conversations, and Slack
- Providing technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship