About the Role

"I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, 'What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind?' it will be about health." -Tim Cook, 2019.

We build the engine that powers every health or fitness application from Apple and our third party developers. We hear from our users that we are helping them live better, get stronger, remember to care for themselves, and even save their lives. We're doing it while keeping their health data safe, accessible and private, and we're pushing the technology and health care industries to do the same. If you are looking for a role where you can use and develop your engineering acumen while changing the world for the better, then look no further!

We are looking for talented engineers to keep Health Kit - the very heart of everything related to health and fitness on Apple platforms - secure, efficient, and ever-growing. We work with hardware and software teams throughout Apple as well as our developer ecosystem to deliver ever more functionality that is deeply integrated with iOS, watchOS and all the rest without sacrificing privacy, power, or performance.

As a member of the team, you'll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally to expand the functionality of the Health app and Health Kit framework. We collaborate across Apple feature teams, hardware teams, domain experts like doctors and fitness experts, and our third party developer ecosystem. Our primary responsibilities are delivering new health and fitness features, designing solutions for distributed health data storage, performance, OS integration, and API design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Developing innovative solutions for efficiently syncing health data across multiple Apple platforms
• Designing and tuning features for use by millions of users on power and performance constrained devices
• Designing and delivering comprehensive test suites in collaboration with our quality assurance and engineering teams
• Designing logical, scalable, forward-thinking APIs that serve our developers' needs
• Participating in peer review of architecture, API, and individual software changes
• Collaborating with and advising other teams across Apple, including Design, Privacy, and Security, as well as domain experts in health and fitness

Minimum Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals
• 2 years of experience working in Objective-C, Swift, C++ or similar high level programming languages
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Experience in object-oriented architecture and design
• Understanding of systems-level concepts like multi-threading and interprocess communication
• Experience with debugging tools and performance tuning
• Knowledge of iOS programming and one or more Apple technologies such as Grand Central Dispatch, Cloud Kit, or XPC Activity/Services
• Strong communication skills, including ability to collaborate in a diversity of backgrounds and experiences
• Willingness to learn and improve, and also mentor and support other team members
• Highly organized, maintaining patience and composure to effectively operate within ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems design and development
• Experience with SQL and database technologies
• Experience delivering libraries, frameworks or APIs
• Familiarity with Fitness, Wellness or Medical concepts

Equal Opportunity

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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.