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Apple Swift Compiler Engineer United Kingdom, England, London 513606753
08.06.2025
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You will have experience with some of the skills below. Nobody is expected to have experience with all of these, but we are looking for someone with a strong desire to learn what you don’t know.
The Swift Compiler Team is looking for an engineer to collaboratively design and implement new language features, improve type checking performance, and enhance the Swift developer experience through diagnostics and other compiler-driven tools. Drawing from your own experience writing code, internalizing a programming model, and working with developer tools, you will bring diverse perspectives and a desire to help solve the problems you’ve encountered in your own development work.AS A SWIFT COMPILER ENGINEER, YOU WILL:- Collaborate with teammates through in-person conversations, pull requests, and other online discussions.- Design and implement new language features and tooling improvements, documenting and iterating on your design decisions through the Swift evolution process.- Welcome constructive feedback on your changes from Swift programmers, and iteratively improve the experience of writing Swift.- Drive the testing, integration, and adoption of your changes into the development ecosystem.
- Experience with software design and programming in a statically-typed language such as (but not limited to) C++ or Swift.
- Familiarity with algorithms and data structures.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate through technical writing.
- Curiosity for understanding a programming mental model and how code works “under the hood”.
- Swift development experience is a plus, but not required.
- Prior experience working on compilers or developer tools is a plus, but not required.
- Ability and motivation to investigate and learn what you don’t know.
- Receptiveness to constructive feedback and mentorship.
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