15 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve distributed services powering Apple Card and Savings while staying hands-on in code and operations.
- Lead large, multi-quarter migrations, platform changes, and integrations with financial institutions, payment networks, and Apple services from conception through production.
- Set technical direction and engineering strategy across teams and organizations through specifications, design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Lead incident response, define service level objectives, improve reliability, and turn operational learnings into architectural improvements.
- Define testing strategies for complex services, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
- Represent Apple in technical negotiations with external partners and mentor senior engineers.
- Drive safe progressive releases, observability, automation, and operational practices that protect reliability and customer trust.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at large scale while remaining hands-on in code.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems trade-offs involving consistency, latency, throughput, and data-correctness patterns such as idempotency, exactly-once processing, and reconciliation.
- Expert hands-on software development skills in Kotlin or Java.
- Extensive operational experience leading incident response, defining service level objectives, and improving architecture based on operational learnings.
- Experience leading complex cross-team projects from conception to production and driving consensus with global teams and external partners.
- A testing-first engineering approach with experience designing for testability and defining unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing strategies.
- Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred experience with Spring, high-volume gRPC services, payments or banking, regulated financial domains, and external financial-partner integrations.
- Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, multi-region resilience, load and failure testing, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and progressive release strategies.
- Preferred experience with Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Kafka or equivalent event streaming, Aurora, DynamoDB, security, privacy, and cryptography.
- No formal degree is required; demonstrated advanced skills and real-world application are valued.
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About Apple
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.