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Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and evolution of distributed services supporting Apple Card and Savings.
- Remain hands-on in software development, operations, incident response, code review, and design review.
- Set technical direction and engineering strategy across teams and organizations.
- Lead complex, multi-quarter projects and integrations with financial institutions, payment networks, and Apple services from conception through production.
- Define service-level objectives, observability strategy, testing strategy, and progressive release practices.
- Write technical specifications, represent Apple in partner discussions, mentor senior engineers, and raise the engineering bar.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at large scale while remaining hands-on in code.
- Deep understanding of distributed-system trade-offs, data correctness patterns, and high-volume services.
- Expert hands-on software development skills in Kotlin or Java.
- Extensive operational experience leading incident response and defining service-level objectives.
- Experience leading complex cross-team projects, migrations, or platform changes and building consensus with diverse audiences.
- Testing-first engineering experience across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred experience with Spring, REST or gRPC services, payments or regulated financial domains, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, observability tools, event streaming, and scalable SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography for sensitive customer and financial data, including mTLS, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and JWT.
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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.