App Store Engineering - Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Apple • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The App Store Engineering R&D team is looking for talented software engineers to build and update App platform. At Apple, great 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. We are looking for a self-motivated, high-energy individual with excellent communication skills who is willing to question assumptions, take end to end ownership of features and drive them to completion. You should have experience developing large-scale server-side systems using object-oriented languages. Some successful attributes include: Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Analyze, design, code, inspect, debug, and test features for the data platform. Maintain and improve existing applications in response to new feature requests. Collaborate closely with members of other teams throughout the release cycle. We're a team of consummate tech geeks who love figuring out how things work and trying to make them better. Sometimes it's a little tweak, sometimes it's a fundamental shift - usually it's somewhere in between. We brainstorm on whiteboards, share ideas at team lunches and pot-lucks, build prototypes, present proposals to teams, embed for a while to help them get started, check the metrics, and repeat!

Requirements

• At least 5+ years experience in crafting, implementing and supporting highly scalable web services.
• Passion and prior experience designing and implementing outstanding large distributed systems.
• Deep understanding, and strong hands on experience - Multithreading, Networking (including non-blocking IO), HTTP and REST APIs.
• Experience debugging binary networking protocols.
• In-depth Javascript programming experience.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with front end frameworks like ReactJS.
• Experience with Swift or Objective-C.
• Experience deploying containerized services using CI/CD tools like Spinnaker and Kubernetes.
• Be an advocate and driver for performance optimization, automation, and unit tests.
• Excellent debugging, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly.
• Tireless attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, code, inspect, debug, and test features for the data platform.
• Maintain and improve existing applications in response to new feature requests.
• Collaborate closely with members of other teams throughout the release cycle.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees