Apple

Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Foundation - Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple$175K — $210K *
Consumer Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in management
  • Strong production experience with JVM-based languages and microservices
  • Expertise in distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Ability to lead technical design and assess architectural trade-offs
  • Strong communication and decision-making skills in dynamic environments
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers
  • Drive technical direction and architectural decisions
  • Ensure services meet high standards of scale and reliability
  • Mentor and support the career development of team members
  • Evaluate technical risks and guide delivery from concept to production
  • Foster a culture of accountability and collaboration

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities for career development
  • Chance to work on critical services in a major tech company
  • Collaborative and supportive work environment
  • Access to leading-edge technologies in financial services
  • Engagement in continuous learning and development initiatives
Full Job Description
Description

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Foundation organization, you will manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers responsible for the technical direction, architecture, delivery, and ongoing operation of critical services supporting foundational domain capabilities used across all WPC products.

This role demands both technical depth and leadership maturity. You will partner with your managers and senior engineers on system design and technical strategy, ensuring your services meet the high bar for scale, reliability, and security expected of Apple's financial and commerce systems. You will maintain active technical credibility across your team's systems, evaluating architectural trade-offs, participating in design reviews, identifying technical risks, and guiding delivery from concept to production.

As a people leader, you will mentor and grow the engineering managers and software engineers on your team, support their career development, and foster a culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and delivery excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years of software engineering experience and 8+ years of direct engineering management including experience leading engineering managers and developing senior individual contributors.

Strong production experience with JVM-based languages, microservices architectures, and high-availability server-side services.

Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including SQL and NoSQL data stores, consistency models, and multi-region deployment topologies such as active-active and active-passive.

Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and architecture reviews, evaluate complex trade-offs, identify technical risks, and drive operational excellence including on-call culture and incident management.

Strong decision-making and communication skills in ambiguous environments, with the ability to deliver structured feedback, communicate strategy clearly, and build trust with cross-functional partners across organizational boundaries.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Domain experience in payments, commerce, or financial services, including familiarity with compliance, privacy, and security considerations.

Demonstrated track record of developing talent, growing individual contributors into senior roles, and coaching engineering managers to scale their leadership.

Experience with re-platforming, modularizing, or scaling backend systems, and navigating cross-functional alignment across distributed and cross-timezone teams.

Master's degree is a plus but not required.

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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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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