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Senior Backend Engineer, Apple News

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8 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build distributed backend services and event-driven pipelines that ingest, process, and serve content at massive scale.
  • Lead projects from design and architecture through launch.
  • Model data and schemas for performance, scalability, and growth.
  • Ensure backend systems remain reliable in production.
  • Drive technical decisions across partner teams.
  • Serve as a technical lead, mentoring engineers and raising engineering quality when applicable.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • 5–10 years of experience shipping scalable, maintainable, and testable backend systems.
  • Strong experience with Java and Spring for backend service development.
  • Experience designing and building high-scale distributed backend services with event-driven architectures and pipelines such as Kafka.
  • Experience with data stores, data modeling, and schema design for production systems.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools for design, coding, and testing.
  • Preferred: technical leadership, mentoring, and architecture-direction experience.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with Apache Cassandra, including query-driven data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning.
  • Preferred: experience with search technologies such as Apache Solr.
  • Preferred: experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and build tools such as Gradle or Bazel.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaBazelGradleJavaJenkins

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Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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