Software Engineer, Content Management Systems

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and extend distributed, large-scale CMS platforms that power apple.com and other digital experiences.
• Build capabilities for the content lifecycle, including modeling, metadata, workflows, versioning, and localization.
• Develop and integrate REST and GraphQL APIs for content authoring, management, and delivery using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build integrations between CMS platforms and search, digital asset management, identity, and analytics systems.
• Design solutions for scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance in distributed cloud environments.
• Implement caching, indexing, and asynchronous processing for large-scale CMS workloads.
• Deploy and operate CMS services using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Leverage AI coding assistants and agentic workflows to improve development productivity and CMS capabilities.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience with a focus on data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, highly available backend and web applications in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Java-based CMS or content platforms and their extension APIs.
• Experience with DAM or PIM solutions and integrations supporting content-as-a-service at scale.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java 11 or later and the Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful and/or GraphQL web services in Java.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling for content-heavy applications.
• Experience with Java build and CI/CD tooling such as Maven or Gradle, Git, and Jenkins.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests with JUnit, Mockito, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms for deploying JVM services (preferred).
• Experience with caching and search technologies such as Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, or Solr (preferred).
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems (preferred).
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular for CMS authoring interfaces (preferred).
• Hands-on experience using AI/ML tools and AI coding assistants to accelerate development (preferred).