Senior Software Engineer, Retail & Marcom Engineering

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, phenomenal ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.

Apple Online Store team is one of the rapidly growing business team inside Apple. Apple Online Store has presence in 40+ countries and transacts in more than 25 currencies. We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to join our Transactional Services Engineering team. You will be building world-class solutions sought at improving the hugely successful Apple Online Store's e-commerce experience and features across different platforms.

You will work on cutting-edge technologies and concepts such as Java, Micro-Services, AWS, Event Driven Architectures, SQL/NO-SQL DB, etc. This is an exciting role, demanding a strong technology background and collaboration skills to be able to support software that meets high standards from a functional standpoint and demands operational excellence in both production and non-production environments.

Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.

We are looking for a self starting, energetic individual with excellent written and communication skills, who is a great team player, but not afraid to question assumptions and take initiative. As part of the AOS Transactional Services Engineering team, your responsibilities include building high throughput, high performance, highly scalable and reliable web services and applications that powers the Apple Online Store, in SOA design working closely with other applications engineering team and interacting with product, design, content, QA and many other groups to lead and deliver world class e-commerce experience from merchandising to checkout on web and mobile platforms, in an exciting fast-paced environment. This position requires an individual, who is passionate about creating innovative solutions down to the details and can lead the team by example.

Minimum Qualifications

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.
5+ years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity. Longer experience preferred.
3+ years proven experience implementing, and shipping high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud-based distributed systems, including proficiency in API implementation (e.g. REST, RPC, GraphQL, etc.).
3+ years proven experience using relational (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) databases, including proficiency in schema design and query optimization.
Proficiency with Java, including proficiency in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.
Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible backend code.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in developing multi-tier highly scalable, high-volume performing, multi-threaded and reliable and distributed web services.
Knowledge and experience of Service-Oriented architectures, micro-services and distributed event driven architectures.
Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills and strong leadership abilities in driving operational excellence and best engineering practices. Proven ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative environment.
Experience with EKS, Containerization, Serverless Technologies, SNS/SQS, ElastiCache, S3 and Kubernetes is a plus.
Experience in SpringMVC, No-SQL DB like Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase etc is desirable.
Experience scaling distributed systems to handle millions of concurrent requests is desirable
Experience in Retail transactional systems and/or Payments processing is a plus
Track record of leading software projects within a team as a tech lead (TL), while mentoring software engineers.
Comfortable using CI/CD tools to build, test, deploy, and release containerized software applications on cloud-based Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, etc.).
Understanding of advanced JVM internals (e.g. garbage collection, memory allocation, JIT, JNI, etc.).
Knowledge of networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing, OSI model, etc.).