Senior Software Engineer, Wallet Identity Server

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer (Wallet Identity Server)

• Focus: Backend distributed systems for digital identity in Wallet, with strong security and privacy

Description

You will help build backend systems that enable users to use wallet-based IDs in person, in apps, and on the web. The work sits between Apple Wallet and digital credential issuers and involves distributed systems and cryptography to deliver secure identity features. The team contributes to standards including ISO 18013/23220, ICAO 9303, and the W3C Digital Credentials API.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design and build mission-critical distributed systems for high-scale identity services

• Develop and operate high-volume web services (REST and/or gRPC)

• Architect cloud-native systems with resilience, failover, and self-healing

• Optimize SQL/NoSQL data stores for scale

• Deliver services through reliable CI/CD pipelines

• Provide technical leadership and mentor team members

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience

• Full SDLC experience for mission-critical distributed systems at scale (design, architecture, development, testing, maintenance)

• Experience building web services with Java and/or Kotlin, including Spring Boot

• Proven development and operational experience with high-volume REST and/or gRPC services

• Experience operating resilient, failover-capable, self-healing cloud-native applications (e.g., AWS)

• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and trade-off analysis across consistency, latency, and throughput

• Experience with robust CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying services

• Hands-on database optimization skills for scale (SQL/NoSQL)

• Technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of distributed systems and cryptography for digital identity

• Contribute to widely used standards for digital credentials and identity interoperability

• Build secure, privacy-preserving services with a focus on operational excellence