Senior Software Engineer, Apple Card & Savings

What you'll do

• Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services for Apple Card and Savings features.
• Ship code changes safely using automated pipelines, canary deployments, and feature flags.
• Manage on-call reliability, lead incident responses, and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Maintain reliable integrations with financial institutions and payment networks while defining SLOs.
• Own features end-to-end from initial technical specification through production operation.
• Review team code and contribute to technical design discussions to improve engineering quality.
• Write unit and integration tests while designing code with testability as a primary concern.
• Automate operational toil and author clear technical documentation for services and APIs.

What we're looking for

• Solid experience building and operating production distributed systems, including services supported on call.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including idempotency, retries, timeouts, and consistency trade-offs.
• Proficiency in a modern backend programming language such as Kotlin or Java.
• Experience debugging production issues using logs, metrics, and traces to drive post-incident improvements.
• Experience writing thorough unit and integration tests and designing code with testability as a first-class concern.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical issues to non-engineering stakeholders.
• Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Production experience with Kotlin and Spring at high transaction volumes (preferred).