Engineering Manager- Finance Engineering

Apple

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About The Position

Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization is seeking an Engineering Manager to join the IS&T Finance ACES team, which builds technology supporting Apple’s finance functions, including procurement, payments, accounting, real estate, and financial reporting. The team delivers integrated solutions that support global finance operations and develops custom tools to improve productivity, automation, and consistency.

The manager will provide technical leadership for enterprise-grade distributed systems while leading the engineers who build them. The role remains hands-on in design and coding and owns team delivery and quality. The manager will collaborate with product, QA, support, business teams, contractors, and colleagues in other time zones to build reliable, secure, scalable, and easy-to-use services.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade systems.
• At least 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems.
• At least 3 years of experience leading, managing, and mentoring engineering teams.
• Experience with at least one mainstream backend programming language.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle.
• Experience designing and delivering large systems, with a focus on performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Experience with Agile software development and the judgment to adapt the process to what works for the team.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Redis, MongoDB, or Couchbase.
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams.
• Experience managing and collaborating with contractors or external partners.
• Ability to prioritize and make sound trade-off decisions grounded in software engineering and architecture principles.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and presentation skills, including the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed leaders, peers, and partners.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building products with AI/ML, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Experience with finance or enterprise business systems, such as procurement, payments, or accounting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, cloud-native, microservices-based systems, making trade-offs explicit and focusing on performance, scalability, robustness, and resiliency.
• Write code, participate in design and code reviews, assess technical risk, and help debug and resolve challenging production issues.
• Run the team using Agile practices, plan work distribution, manage risk, deliver on commitments, and adapt to changing business priorities.
• Work with peers and product owners to build a technical roadmap aligned with the business vision.
• Lead proofs of concept and pilots to test ideas and bring successful solutions into production.
• Continuously improve the reliability, performance, and security of critical finance services.
• Lead, hire, develop, mentor, and grow an engineering team; provide regular feedback and foster a culture of learning and ownership.
• Build relationships with global leaders, peers, contractors, and partners in a matrix organization.
• Coordinate across QA, support, and end users to deliver successful outcomes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager