Senior Software Engineer, Retail & Marcom Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Server-side (backend) software engineering for Retail & Marcom systems

• Collaboration: Works with QA, product, and external partners to deliver reliable customer and retail-employee experiences

• Focus: Scalable, secure, fault-tolerant backend services; API design; event-driven architectures

Description

The Financing & Retail Systems team is seeking an experienced Server-side Software Engineer to build reliable, seamless experiences for Apple customers and Retail Store employees worldwide. You’ll join a hands-on backend development team delivering highly scalable, secure, fault-tolerant solutions, improving service performance and reliability, and troubleshooting production issues. You will also participate in technical design discussions, review code, and strengthen engineering practices across the team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver backend services and features in partnership with engineering, QA, product, and carrier partners

• Improve service performance, reliability, and operational stability

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues

• Contribute to technical design discussions and code reviews

• Help strengthen engineering practices across the team

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience

• 5+ years of proven professional software development experience (longer preferred)

• 2+ years proven experience developing in Java, including concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization

• Proficiency in OOP, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns; ability to implement testable, maintainable, extensible backend code

• Experience building production applications with the Spring ecosystem (e.g., Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud), including dependency injection, auto-configuration, reactive programming with WebFlux, and microservice design

• Experience with API design and implementation including RESTful API principles, gRPC, GraphQL, and contract-first design (OpenAPI/Swagger, Protobuf); strong understanding of API versioning/backward compatibility

• Experience with message-driven and event-driven architectures including Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ, event sourcing, CQRS, and reliable asynchronous communication

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning (indexing, execution plan analysis, query rewriting)

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and operate systems and experiences connecting Apple products with customers in online and physical stores

• Work with a team that emphasizes scalable, secure, fault-tolerant engineering and high reliability in production

• Collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, QA, product, and external partners