Software Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce - Accounts team powers the commerce
platform behind all of Apple's services including Apple Music, Apple TV,
iCloud+, and subscriptions sold through the App Store. With over a billion
active subscriptions driving Apple's services growth and revenue, we're
dedicated to delivering best-in-class commerce experiences while creating a
robust platform for our services and developers to monetize their businesses.
Our Commerce team provides the transactional engine for the App Store, iTunes
Music Store, Apple Music, iBook Store, Apple TV+, and more—operating the highest
volume digital content store in the world, serving billions of transactions
daily across more than 155 countries.

As an Engineering Manager on the ASE Commerce - Accounts team, you'll lead the
evolution of Apple's commerce ecosystem in an increasingly competitive
landscape. You'll build and guide a team that develops services and application
components shared across applications, supporting massive scale while
maintaining the highest standards of reliability and security. You'll contribute
to the architecture, design, and implementation of top-level user-visible
features, with an emphasis on identifying reusable components across different
scenarios and domains. Partnering with diverse cross-functional teams from
across Apple, you'll tackle the stimulating challenges of building systems
exposed to hundreds of millions of transacting users worldwide. If you want to
make a difference and thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding environment where the
best engineers collaborate to deliver fantastic products and features to our
customers, this is the opportunity for you.

Requirements

• Comfortable splitting time between hands-on coding and team leadership responsibilities
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, with a focus on technical growth and code quality
• Interest in growing engineering talent through 1:1s, career development conversations, and feedback
• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive code reviews and technical guidance to team members
• Ability to jump into debugging sessions and help unblock team members
• Comfortable taking ownership and providing technical direction, especially when requirements are ambiguous
• Strong object-oriented design skills with experience building maintainable, extensible systems
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable, secure RESTful web services
• Hands-on engineering skills with ability to write clean, well-documented, production-ready code
• Experience building reusable components, frameworks, or libraries that provide leverage across teams
• Experience with relational databases and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, etc.)
• Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Experience working in and navigating large, complex codebases
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Sound technical judgment with ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical fields

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading large cross functional projects
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques
• Expertise with NoSQL data stores like Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and debugging production systems

What This Job Offers

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