TechCrunch is reporting on a new job posting for Apple corporate that popped up sometime last week, and it appears to let slip the fact that Apple is looking into expanding their online offerings regarding their iWork productivity suite. This job posting suggests a new project is underway.
The Productivity team (i.e. iWork) is seeking an energetic, highly motivated software engineer in building a scalable rich internet application. The person will be part of the core development team and engage in an area from design to development of the software system.
Apple is looking for someone with experience in JavaScript, browser technologies, computer graphics, scalable rich internet applications, and productivity app development.
Few clues are given to the exact nature of this project, but the listing mentioning that the job position is “design and development”, which suggests this is a new project, and not just an enhancement of the current, albeit limited cloud features incorporated in iWork ’09 in the form of iWork.com beta.
As you may know, Apple has offered the iWork.com beta document collaboration since iWork ’09 was introduced last January.
As usual, I almost didn’t report on this story because Michael Arrington touched it. In fact, the only reason I reported on this story, is that there was solid evidence to back his claim.
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