Apple - Creative Developer

Developer is needed in Cupertino, United States.

Client: Apple

Location: Cupertino, CA

Contract: undefined

Job Description

People come to Apple to do the best work of their lives. At Apple Services, we provide amazing content to Apple customers, like the amazing Apps and Games from the App Store, blockbuster Movies & TV Shows in Apple’s TV App, and providing the soundtrack to our customers’ lives via Apple Music.

The Apple Services Media Technology & Tools Design Team is looking for a Creative Developer with a solid understanding of both web and native app development, with a keen aesthetic eye, a strong interest in Design and a proven track record.

This role is focused on empowering creatives with amazing tools to automate repetitive tasks at international scale and to create new deliverables never thought possible from different image and video sources for Apple Media Products (Apple TV App, Apple Music, App Store, Podcasts, and Apple Books).

As a Creative Developer, you will focus on many core areas, including working between Human Interface Design, Content Design, and Engineering to drive design automation progress forward using prototyping and quick iteration through homemade tools or utilities. You will build web and native macOS Apps to create efficiencies in production design processes and automate artwork at a large scale. Your responsibilities will include developing Photoshop and After Effects scripts, Sketch plugins, and macOS services, maintaining new and existing software, and creating documentation for new and existing apps and tools.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Approaches problems flexibly.
• Innovates down to the details.
• Communicates effectively.
• Manages ambiguity & complexity.
• Experience building native macOS apps using Swift.
• Experience with shell scripting using Bash or ZSH, and AppleScript.
• Experience using modern web frameworks, such as React.
• Proficient understanding of the latest ECMAScript standards.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and design-focused environment, while learning new technologies.
• Ability to design simple experiences for complex problems.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with others.
• An affinity for Apple Media Products and digital content, in general.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Some college-level education, or higher.
• Experience in at least one server-side technology, such as NodeJS or Python.
• Experience using modern web frameworks, such as React.
• Experience using REST APIs with JSON, and a high-level understanding of how HTTP works.
• Experience with Git and using GitHub to maintain well-organized code repositories and releases.
• Experience and proficiency working and automating art with Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and After Effects.
• Comfort working together with many Design teams as well as Engineering team disciplines, often being the creative development glue between them.