Apple

Software Engineering Technical Lead, Server Energy Services

Apple$150K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a tech lead or architect role.
  • Proven experience in architecting, building, and scaling mission-critical distributed systems on the JVM.
  • Ability to drive architecture and technical roadmaps across multiple teams and services.
  • Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals and associated trade-offs.
  • Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence and adoption of new technologies.
  • Proficient in influencing architectural decisions and managing complex projects from start to finish.
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve the Energy Services platform for scalability and resilience.
  • Collaborate with server and client teams to design and build robust services and APIs.
  • Support millions of users while enhancing system performance and reliability.
  • Engage in early development investigations and prototype new features.
  • Integrate with 3rd-party services for innovative technological solutions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in one of Apple’s most innovative spaces.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and industry advancements.
Full Job Description
Description

You will help architect and evolve the Energy Services platform, shaping how it scales and stays resilient as we add new features and partner integrations. Working closely with server and client teams, you will design and build services and APIs that support millions of users, while continuing to raise the bar on scalability and resilience. You'll also have the opportunity to be involved with early development investigations, prototypes, and 3rd-party integrations for one of Apple's most innovative spaces.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, including 3+ years as a tech lead/architect.

Extensive experience architecting, building, shipping, and scaling mission-critical distributed systems on the JVM.

Track record of driving architecture and technical roadmaps across multiple engineers, services, or teams.

Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and the trade-offs in consistency, latency, throughput, and failure modes.

A commitment to engineering excellence, with curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns.

Demonstrated ability to influence architectural and cross-functional decisions, build strong working relationships across teams, and drive complex projects from conception to production.

Clear and effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and external partners.

BS Degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong DevOps and platform engineering experience - containerization and orchestration, cloud-native services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Experience with durable workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Temporal).

Significant hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases at scale (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB).

Solid understanding of security, privacy, and applied cryptography - PKI, certificate management, and JWT.

Experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring, and gRPC.

Proven experience onboarding and integrating with external partners.

Hands-on experience using generative AI tools to accelerate software development.

Domain knowledge of the utility industry, electrical grid, or renewable energy.

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.

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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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