Apple

Software Engineer, Apple Gift Systems

Apple$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
  • Experience architecting and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs like consistency, latency, and throughput.
  • Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly with diverse audiences.
  • Track record of building healthy, long-term relationships within and across teams.
  • Experience using generative AI tools in software development.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed systems to support secure, high-volume payments and gifting experiences.
  • Own the full product lifecycle from architecture through deployment and operations.
  • Shape early development investigations and prototypes for new projects.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in engineering, design, and product to deliver seamless software integration.
  • Ensure high reliability, privacy, and user satisfaction in all transactions and interactions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative projects in a high-impact domain.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Career growth potential within a leading technology company.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.
  • Focus on engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a skilled and curious software engineer to help build the future of gifting, where every purchase, redemption, and moment of joy is powered by innovation and thoughtful design. The ideal candidate thrives on ambiguity, cares deeply about engineering excellence, and wants their work to reach millions of people.

Description

As a member of the Payments Engineering organization, you'll design and build distributed systems that support secure, high-volume payment and gifting experiences worldwide. Our platforms process transactions at global scale, ensuring reliability, privacy, and delight in every interaction.

You'll be part of a team that owns the full product lifecycle - from architecture and implementation through deployment, observability, and on-call operations. You'll also have the opportunity to shape early development investigations, prototypes, and third-party integrations, and you'll collaborate across Apple's engineering, design, and product teams to deliver software that integrates seamlessly into Apple's ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience

Experience architecting, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at large scale.

The ability to reason about distributed systems trade-offs across consistency, latency, and throughput, and to defend the choices you make.

A commitment to engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and the curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns.

An ability to communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to drive consensus on complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams and external partners.

A track record of building and sustaining healthy long-term relationships and technical influence within your team and beyond its boundaries.

The tenacity and perseverance to lead complex projects all the way from conception to production.

Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to produce high-quality software.

Able to work with cross-functional partners to define product objectives

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency with Java or Kotlin and Spring, with the judgment to evaluate, review, and debug code regardless of how it was produced.

Proven development and operational experience with high-volume REST and/or gRPC services (either server-to-server or mobile client facing).

Experience designing for containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience architecting and operating cloud-native applications with resilience, failover, and self-healing as core features.

Experience delivering and operating services on a managed internal platform, rather than provisioning raw cloud infrastructure.

The ability to design robust CI/CD pipelines and define infrastructure as code.

Experience with observability strategies and tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog).

A working understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography (e.g. encryption, tokenization, key management, PKI, certificate management, JWT).

Experience optimizing SQL/NoSQL databases for scale (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Oracle).

Domain knowledge of payments, commerce, gift cards, or other financial systems with strict correctness and audit requirements.

Passion for people, code, and improving our future

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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Net Income
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1976
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