Senior Backend Engineer - Integrations Lead (G&A Solutions Engineering)

About the role

Apple's IS&T G&A Solutions Engineering team is running a major transformation initiative: turning a custom-built system into a cloud platform. It is looking for an Integration Lead Engineer to work on the Integrations track with a team of software engineers. The role leads a subset of integrations to and from SaaS and cloud-based ERP systems, both external and internal to Apple, and involves leading an onsite and offshore team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of a subset of integrations.
• Recommend design and implementation approaches for system design, security, system architecture and interfaces.
• Ensure consistent design and implementation patterns and provide technical leadership.
• Improve operational activities such as application monitoring, failure processing, auditing and business insights.
• Participate in communities to stay connected with cloud computing and SaaS solution providers.

Required profile

• 7+ years of software development experience building commercial, enterprise-class backend platforms or components.
• 2-4 years of experience with SaaS, PaaS and RaaS solutions.
• Hands-on coder who actively develops and leads an onsite and offshore team.
• Strong technical leadership, proactive and solution-oriented, with good written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and in a diverse, fast-paced environment.
• Fluency in English and Chinese preferred.

Required skills

• Core Java and Spring (expert level).
• REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, SAML, WSDL.
• Scalable RESTful web services and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Concurrency, scalability and fault-tolerant design; performance tuning and caching.
• XML and XSLT document transformation; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra are a plus.
• UI stacks (HTML, jQuery, Angular) and search technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene) are a plus.