Senior Front-End Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple

  • Seattle, WA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 6 days ago
Apple Services Engineering powers beloved services like Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and more. Behind the scenes, our internal platforms help ensure creative and technical quality at scale. Our team builds the critical tools used to review media content before it reaches global audiences. We're looking for a senior front-end engineer who can take ownership of the web experience, bring technical depth, and collaborate across disciplines. Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.DescriptionYou'll be the primary front-end engineer on a focused pod within a 20+ person team, building internal video and media tooling used by teams supporting Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Sports. This is a high-impact, highly autonomous role ideal for someone who can balance UI polish with deep system understanding. You should be comfortable navigating a complex codebase, proposing UI architecture, and collaborating closely with backend and product partners. Our stack includes React/Svelte and TypeScript on the front end, with Java/Kotlin/Python services. While the role is front-end focused, the ability-or eagerness-to work across the stack is highly valued. You'll partner closely with backend peers and be empowered to explore across the stack in an environment that values technical depth and curiosity. Does this sound like you? Join our team!Minimum Qualifications
  • 8+ years professional front-end engineering experience building production web applications
  • Expert JavaScript/TypeScript and React (or comparable modern framework); strong command of component patterns, hooks, context, and state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand)
  • Front-end architecture leadership: design/evolve modular UI architectures, data-flow boundaries, and code-splitting strategies with minimal supervision
  • Performance excellence: hands-on experience meeting Core Web Vitals; profiling and fixing bundle bloat via tree-shaking, code-splitting, caching, and memoization
  • Testing discipline: unit/integration/E2E (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright/Cypress) and confidence adding tests to legacy code
  • API integration: REST/GraphQL, authentication flows, resilient data fetching/caching (SWR/React Query), error handling and retries
  • Authentication & authorization (required): proven experience implementing secure client-side auth in production-OAuth 2.0/OIDC with PKCE, SSO integrations, safe token/refresh handling, session management, CSRF/CORS/sameSite, and permission-aware UI (RBAC/ABAC) without exposing sensitive details
  • Styling systems: CSS architecture (CSS Modules/Tailwind/CSS-in-JS), responsive layouts, theming, and cross-browser compatibility
  • Tooling & delivery: modern build tools (Vite/Webpack/Rollup), linting/formatting (ESLint/Prettier), package hygiene, and CI for front-end pipelines
  • Quality & observability: feature flags, analytics, and client-side monitoring (e.g., Sentry) to ensure reliability in production
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
  • Web media playback: HLS streaming experience (e.g., hls.js), track selection (multi-audio), captions/subtitles (WebVTT/TTML), and familiarity with MSE/EME and the Web Audio API
  • Visualizing Content/ML metadata: building timeline/overlay views (bounding boxes, markers, heatmaps) with Canvas/SVG/WebGL, synchronized to playback with performant rendering (rAF, Workers, OffscreenCanvas)
  • Ownership of a design system or Storybook-driven component libraries; visual regression testing
  • Strong communication skills; proven mentorship and influence across design and product partners
Pay & BenefitsAt 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 $171,600 and $302,200, 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.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.

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