Spotlight UI Engineer

The Spotlight UI team believes that the moment someone reaches for search, they deserve something that feels instant, intelligent, effortless, and personal. We craft the experience that sits between a person and everything on their device - through deep system integration, fluid presentations, and rich interactive previews. We ship to billions of devices.\nOur codebase spans Swift and Objective-C across multiple platforms, requiring engineers who can navigate both languages fluently and work effectively across the full stack - from UI presentation to system-level integration.\nWe are looking for an experienced engineer who brings craft and rigor in equal measure. Someone who takes ownership of hard problems and communicates clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike. You will help translate between engineering constraints and product goals. You will help set the technical direction for the team.\n

Dedication to crafting polished, responsive, and reliable user experiences\nExcelled in collaborative, cross-functional environments with both technical and non-technical partners\nSuccessfully synthesized analysis of complex, multi-platform problems\nSwiftUI interop with UIKit and AppKit\nDeep UIKit and AppKit knowledge\nProficiency in both Swift and Objective-C\nProlific at writing clean and testable code\n

Incremental migration of large Objective-C codebases to Swift\nSwift concurrency in production (async/await, actors, Sendable)\nPerformance analysis with Instruments\nIPC mechanisms\nFramework-level development shipping across iOS and macOS