Software Development Engineer

Apple•Austin, TX

9h•Onsite

About The Position

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Analyze business requirement and develop solution options in collaboration with multiple teams, reviewing user and system requirements, and evaluate multiple potential technical solutions. Lead the technical design and architecture of individual software solutions, developing detailed proposals including frontend design, backend API structure and functionality, data flow and pipelines, database schemas, Cloud. Supervise and drive software engineering efforts with direct reports and partners, focusing on performance, scalability, maintainability and security of products, fitness for purpose and conformance to requirements, leading design and code reviews, test & validation, quality gates, code scanning, compliance. Development, maintenance, and support with a focus to enhance operational excellence by developing processes and best practices for ongoing monitoring of service and data health, application availability, security issues, and resource utilization on Cloud. Identify and resolve technical debt, organize required maintenance and support; triage and track critical bugs and priority enhancements, ensuring technical health and quality of service, prioritizing and leading recovery efforts. Provide technical leadership to the development team, driving architecture/design reviews, privacy/security compliance, development & testing best practices, change management, and deployment go/no-go decisions. Partner with the business and process reengineering teams to define and drive an integrated capabilities roadmap with focus on business value, automation & quality. Provide technical leadership, driving architecture/design reviews, privacy/security clearance, development & testing, deployment go-ahead, as well as day-to-day coaching for critical decisions during the software development life cycle. Drive alignment and initiatives across worldwide and regional development teams to achieve global goals, such as shared support models, technical knowledge transfer, or alignment on technical standardization, best practices and processes. Supervise staffing and onboarding activities, interview and evaluate new hires for Apple internal employee and contractor positions. Coach, mentor, and develop talent, perform quarterly and annual reviews, identify growth opportunities and improvement plans. Drive, influence, and develop long-term strategic initiatives that shape the future of Apple's supply chain roadmap, influence leaders on approach to complex problems; identify innovation & transformation opportunities. 40 hours/week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Architecting and designing web applications that are scalable, reliable, performant, maintainable and secure based on user, business, and technical requirements.
Utilizing frontend frameworks and libraries including React, Vue, or Angular to develop or review code for user interfaces.
Utilizing backend languages and frameworks including PHP/Symfony, Python/FastAPI, or Java/Spring, to develop or review code for middleware and application logic.
Utilizing Data and DB expertise for developing or reviewing SQL queries, monitoring data pipelines, or identifying possible causes for data issues.
Utilizing source code management platforms including SVN or GIT to review and supervise code changes during code reviews.
Leveraging first-hand experience with Cloud platforms including AWS to deploy services and products to the designated test, staging, and production IT infrastructure.
Utilizing DevOps engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions including Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch to automate repeated tasks and identify platform issues.
Leveraging technical problem-solving skills to narrow down root causes of incidents, including identifying bugs or errors in code segments written in PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, or SQL.
Building technical roadmap, combining technical platform capabilities on Cloud with to integrate with shared services including APIs from web or microservices or data sources (SQL)

Responsibilities

Analyze business requirement and develop solution options in collaboration with multiple teams, reviewing user and system requirements, and evaluate multiple potential technical solutions.
Lead the technical design and architecture of individual software solutions, developing detailed proposals including frontend design, backend API structure and functionality, data flow and pipelines, database schemas, Cloud.
Supervise and drive software engineering efforts with direct reports and partners, focusing on performance, scalability, maintainability and security of products, fitness for purpose and conformance to requirements, leading design and code reviews, test & validation, quality gates, code scanning, compliance.
Develop, maintain, and support with a focus to enhance operational excellence by developing processes and best practices for ongoing monitoring of service and data health, application availability, security issues, and resource utilization on Cloud.
Identify and resolve technical debt, organize required maintenance and support; triage and track critical bugs and priority enhancements, ensuring technical health and quality of service, prioritizing and leading recovery efforts.
Provide technical leadership to the development team, driving architecture/design reviews, privacy/security compliance, development & testing best practices, change management, and deployment go/no-go decisions.
Partner with the business and process reengineering teams to define and drive an integrated capabilities roadmap with focus on business value, automation & quality.
Provide technical leadership, driving architecture/design reviews, privacy/security clearance, development & testing, deployment go-ahead, as well as day-to-day coaching for critical decisions during the software development life cycle.
Drive alignment and initiatives across worldwide and regional development teams to achieve global goals, such as shared support models, technical knowledge transfer, or alignment on technical standardization, best practices and processes.
Supervise staffing and onboarding activities, interview and evaluate new hires for Apple internal employee and contractor positions.
Coach, mentor, and develop talent, perform quarterly and annual reviews, identify growth opportunities and improvement plans.
Drive, influence, and develop long-term strategic initiatives that shape the future of Apple's supply chain roadmap, influence leaders on approach to complex problems; identify innovation & transformation opportunities.