Apple

Engineering Manager, Apple Card & Savings

Apple$160K — $190K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering focusing on large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience leading and developing software engineering teams
  • Proficient in Java or Kotlin with service design for scale
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and API design
  • Familiar with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Ability to foster cross-functional collaboration
  • Proven track record of timely software delivery in dynamic settings
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of engineers building and scaling distributed systems
  • Ensure delivery of high-quality software meeting performance standards
  • Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams
  • Define project roadmaps and clarify project ambiguities
  • Promote the growth and development of engineering team members
  • Oversee technical leadership alongside project management
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of backend systems

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Engagement with a high-impact product in the financial technology sector
  • Collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
  • Dynamic and innovative work environment
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and engineering practices
Full Job Description
You will manage a team of engineers building and scaling the distributed systems that underpin Apple Card and Apple Savings - spanning Java and Kotlin services, infrastructure, relational and NoSQL datastores, and high-throughput messaging pipelines. Day-to-day, you will balance hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional collaboration, ensuring the team delivers high-quality software that meets the performance and reliability bar Apple's customers expect. You will partner closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams to define roadmaps, resolve ambiguity, and grow your engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems environment.

Proven experience managing and growing a team of software engineers in a fast-paced product.

Deep expertise in Java or Kotlin, with hands-on experience designing services for scale and performance.

Strong background in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and API design.

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and high-throughput messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, or equivalent).

Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders.

Track record of delivering high-quality software on time in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.

Exceptional communication skills - able to convey technical complexity clearly to both engineering teams, partners and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with financial services, payments, or fintech domains, including regulatory and compliance considerations.

Hands-on experience with performance engineering, capacity planning, and large-scale system reliability practices.

Proficiency in modern CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native deployment patterns.

Skilled in defining and tracking engineering health metrics - latency, throughput, error rates, and on-call burden.

Experience working in organizations with high data-privacy and security requirements.

Background building consumer-facing financial or commerce products at scale.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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