Description

Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help drive the modernization of persistence systems that must handle multi-gigabyte projects with real-time responsiveness. You will be a technical contributor within the team while collaborating across Apple's creative applications ecosystem. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives on solving complex problems at the intersection of high-performance computing and creative technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance the data model, persistence infrastructure and shared frameworks used across Final Cut Pro applications.
• Contribute to the migration of legacy Objective-C systems to modern Swift applying best practices for maintainability and testability.
• Develop new capabilities using Swift structured concurrency and Grand Central Dispatch, ensuring thread safety and optimal performance.
• Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to deliver foundational improvements that enable seamless workflows across applications.
• Identify and resolve complex bottlenecks in multi-threaded, latency-sensitive environments processing large media files.
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following modern architectural principles.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions and technical investigations while contributing to engineering excellence standards

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in application or platform-level development, with a focus on persistence frameworks and system design.
• Deep experience with Core Data or similar persistence technologies, including schema migrations and domain modeling.
• Advanced understanding of concurrency, and memory management in modern Apple environments.
• Proficiency with Apple's development toolchain, including Xcode, Instruments, and Interface Builder
• Experience with unit testing, continuous integration, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively in a multi-functional team.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience programming in either C++ / Objective-C / Swift
• Hands-on experience using Swift structured concurrency (async/await, Tasks and Actors) and developing APIs with seamless Objective-C interoperability.
• Familiarity with media or graphics applications, video editing tools, or creative software workflows.
• Understanding of Apple frameworks such as AVFoundation, Core Animation, AppKit/UIKit.
• Experience working in large, legacy codebases with incremental modernization goals.
• Exposure to Micro Services Architecture or Distributed Systems
• Knowledge of data migration strategies and performance tuning for I/O-bound systems.

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