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Senior Software Engineer - Setup
Apple, Inc.Cupertino, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 12 Aug 2026
Quick Overview
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
Apple devices have revolutionized how people live, connect, and work. It's not by chance! By thoughtfully blending beautiful, premium hardware with intuitive, innovative system software, we design and build a uniquely impactful user experience. The leading edge of this user experience is made up by the essential apps, components, and frameworks of System Experience.
Come help dramatically improve the first experience that every iPhone, iPad, and Mac customer sees - the Setup experience. Work with an energetic, hard-working, fun team of managers, engineers, cross-functional teams, and world-class designers to deliver the best system experiences on the planet!
Description
We're the System Experience Setup team. We build Setup Assistant, the software that guides every iPhone, iPad, and Mac customer to set up their new device. Setup Assistant is the front door to these products - it is the most visible, critical piece of our customer onboarding process. We work with multiple cross-functional teams to continuously evolve the setup experience, which includes introducing many new hardware and software features.
We're looking for a staff-level software engineer to help us solve the most impactful, complex problems our team faces. As a staff-level engineer on the Setup team, your responsibilities will include designing/implementing new features and refining the existing experience, all while ensuring quality at every step. You will set and uphold high standards for technical execution, and actively invest in the growth of your teammates. As a member of the Setup team, you will be collaborating with outstanding engineering and cross-functional partners. Our team culture is set up to help you succeed and grow as we deliver incredible user experiences together.
Minimum Qualifications
Stellar engineering quality & output - you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with reasonable failure modes
Platform API design - you're proficient at designing, building, and supporting a platform, understanding customer needs and constraints
Technical leadership - you exemplify "what good looks like" in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization
Customer focus - you make high-quality, user-centric product decisions
Mentorship - you make everyone around you smarter and purposefully invest in the growth of your peers - especially junior engineers
Critical thinking with influence - you systematically evaluate the tradeoffs associated with each potential solution to a problem, make an informed decision, and articulate these things well to influence others, driving impact
Track record of success - you have 7-10 years of software engineering experience with impact to show for it
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
Come help dramatically improve the first experience that every iPhone, iPad, and Mac customer sees - the Setup experience. Work with an energetic, hard-working, fun team of managers, engineers, cross-functional teams, and world-class designers to deliver the best system experiences on the planet!
Description
We're the System Experience Setup team. We build Setup Assistant, the software that guides every iPhone, iPad, and Mac customer to set up their new device. Setup Assistant is the front door to these products - it is the most visible, critical piece of our customer onboarding process. We work with multiple cross-functional teams to continuously evolve the setup experience, which includes introducing many new hardware and software features.
We're looking for a staff-level software engineer to help us solve the most impactful, complex problems our team faces. As a staff-level engineer on the Setup team, your responsibilities will include designing/implementing new features and refining the existing experience, all while ensuring quality at every step. You will set and uphold high standards for technical execution, and actively invest in the growth of your teammates. As a member of the Setup team, you will be collaborating with outstanding engineering and cross-functional partners. Our team culture is set up to help you succeed and grow as we deliver incredible user experiences together.
Minimum Qualifications
Stellar engineering quality & output - you separate concerns and define well-abstracted interfaces, delivering performant, well-tested, maintainable code with reasonable failure modes
Platform API design - you're proficient at designing, building, and supporting a platform, understanding customer needs and constraints
Technical leadership - you exemplify "what good looks like" in code, in documentation, making and delivering on commitments, and prioritization
Customer focus - you make high-quality, user-centric product decisions
Mentorship - you make everyone around you smarter and purposefully invest in the growth of your peers - especially junior engineers
Critical thinking with influence - you systematically evaluate the tradeoffs associated with each potential solution to a problem, make an informed decision, and articulate these things well to influence others, driving impact
Track record of success - you have 7-10 years of software engineering experience with impact to show for it
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
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