Software Engineering Manager

$190,700 - $329,600/Yr

Apple - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce group is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead the platform engineering team responsible for the transactional engine of various Apple services, including the App Store and Apple Music. This role involves building a scalable commerce platform that handles billions of transactions daily, ensuring a seamless purchase and subscription experience for millions of customers. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to design and implement features that support high transactional integrity, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team in developing scalable commerce solutions for Apple services.
• Build services and application components to support high levels of transactional integrity and availability.
• Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of user-visible features.
• Identify opportunities for software reuse across different domains and refactor code for better leverage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and support language and local market requirements.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, evaluating their performance and providing guidance.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and evaluating performance of other engineers.
• Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques.
• Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills.
• Experience writing components/frameworks/libraries for software leverage.
• Experience working in a large code base.
• Experience building highly scalable, secure RESTful web services.
• Experience with relational databases, JDBC, and object-relational frameworks like Hibernate, JPA.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests with frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• 2-4 years of experience as a software engineering manager.
• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Apache Spark and Hadoop.
• Experience using NoSQL solutions like Cassandra, Voldemort, and Memcached.
• TCP/IP networking experience with protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and SSL.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance
• Employee stock purchase plan with discounts