Backend Software Engineer

About the role

The IS&T Enterprise Technology Services team at Apple is looking for a highly motivated Backend Software Engineer to design and develop applications that handle petabytes of data and millions of transactions per hour. The role focuses on building and maintaining highly scalable, low‑latency distributed platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Architecture, design and rollout of new features
• Design and development of applications around data services
• Evaluating products and emerging technologies and integrating them into projects
• Operation and maintenance of the existing highly scalable distributed platform

Required profile

• Minimum 4 years of experience with Java/J2EE
• Minimum 4 years building integration platforms
• Proven expertise in developing highly scalable distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL and proficiency in SQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Redis, MongoDB
• Solid understanding of Unix/Linux environments
• Self‑motivated with ability to make critical judgments under incomplete information
• Good leadership, project management and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams

Required skills

• Java, J2EE
• REST, SOAP, gRPC
• Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL
• Couchbase, Redis, MongoDB
• Unix/Linux
• AliCloud / Alibaba Cloud (preferred)
• Pekko actor system (preferred)
• Contributing to Apache open‑source projects (preferred)
• Python, Lua, Go (preferred)