Apple

Software Engineer, Retail Demo Engineering

Apple$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in shipping full-stack production software, including native, web, and backend
  • High proficiency in Swift, with sufficient Objective-C knowledge for legacy support
  • Hands-on AWS administration experience in production environments
  • Demonstrated ability in developing production-grade multi-model LLM integrations
  • Expertise in architecting and maintaining production-grade backend services in Go
  • Experience in designing and managing production-grade data pipelines for enterprise document storage
  • Proven track record in driving modernization projects whilst ensuring service continuity

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business and engineering teams to craft compelling customer demo experiences
  • Develop and prototype applications across iOS and macOS platforms
  • Debug and resolve production issues, analyzing backend services deeply
  • Shape SDK contracts that accommodate various application requirements
  • Engage in end-to-end modernization of legacy application stacks and cloud platforms
  • Drive successful deployment of containerized applications with CI/CD pipelines
  • Implement security and resource management for AWS-managed services

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and remote work options
  • Access to continued professional development and training
  • Health and wellness programs
  • Generous vacation policy and paid time off
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a leading tech company
Full Job Description
Description

We are hiring a staff level software engineer who can move fluently across the intersection of Apple operating systems, native and web apps as well as back end services on the demo stack. You will partner with business, creative and engineering teams to shape customer demo experiences in the store. Your work could span iOS or macOS engineering, SDK contracts, prototyping new apps, or tracing unexpected device behavior multiple layers into a backend service. You have shipped Swift at scale, can reason about underlying services, prototype quickly, and debug systems behavior to solve subtle production issues.

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years shipping full-stack production software (native, web, backend, relational SQL data models), including designing and operating the devops pipelines: containerization and CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline-level failure diagnosis

Highly proficient in Swift, with Objective-C proficiency sufficient for interop and legacy maintenance, sustained across successive major iOS releases

Hands-on, compliant administration of AWS in production, including access control, compute, storage, resource provisioning and managed database services

Proven track record developing production-grade multi-model LLM integration in a native application, with typed contracts between model outputs and application code, and structured invocation of code by the model

Deeply skilled at architecting, building, and operating production-grade backend services in Go, exercising judgment across choice of data stores, document-oriented and relational

Experience designing, building, and operating production-grade data pipelines that ingest from Box or equivalent enterprise document storage reliably at scale

Experience driving significant modernization end to end (legacy application stacks and enterprise cloud platform migrations), with the systems continuing to serve users through the change

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications

Strong track record of collaborating with cross-functional partners in a business-embedded engineering function, working directly as DRI and team lead, including directing vendor scope, standards, and delivery

Has shipped and operated production services in two or more distinct language ecosystems (e.g., Swift/Vapor, Node/Express, JVM/Spring, Python/FastAPI), selecting based on problem fit rather than familiarity

Integration experience with enterprise identity and single-sign-on platforms

Design foundations (formal training or applied work) that inform how you build customer-facing surfaces

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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