About the Role

The Apple Services Engineering team powers the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books, combining Apple's passion for art and technology on a massive scale. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Commerce team, which manages purchases and subscriptions for millions of customers and developers worldwide.

This is an opportunity to tackle the challenges of building a world-class, extraordinary, and scalable commerce platform. You will work on adding new integrations, scaling data flows, and re-imagining existing processes to accommodate new features, architectures, and country-specific requirements. This role operates at an immense scale of volume and complexity, in a fast-paced environment where the best engineers and scientists collaborate to deliver fantastic products for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from inception and design through to production deployment, with a strong focus on performance and scalability.
• Develop and maintain secure, end-to-end, server-side solutions for commerce, taxation, accounting, and reporting systems.
• Add new integrations, scale current data flows, and re-imagine existing processes to accommodate developing features and architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Take ownership of projects, set direction, and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Measure, profile, and tune system performance to ensure a flawless purchase and subscription experience.
• Uphold Apple's core values by strengthening our privacy policy through thoughtful engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

Two years of experience in the following areas:

• Strong experience with Java programming and Object-Oriented Programming principles.
• Knowledge of databases (both SQL and NoSQL, e.g., Cassandra) and entity-relationship modeling.
• Experience building and working with highly scalable applications and RESTful web services.
• Familiarity with scalability, performance issues, and programming for eventual consistency.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills to leadership.
• Familiarity with UX principles and Frontend UI engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master's Degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science is preferred.
• Strong sense of responsibility and an interest in the commerce domain.
• Excellent judgment and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions.
• Willingness to take ownership, set direction, and navigate ambiguity.

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.