Senior Software Engineer, Wallet Identity Server

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Austin, TX +1 · Software and Services

Senior Software Engineer for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce team, focusing on building resilient and reliable distributed software systems at scale. The role involves the full product and software development lifecycle, including design, build, test, delivery, maintenance, operation, monitoring, and on-call support.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a key member of the team, you’ll participate in technical discussions, write specifications, review code, and produce documentation.
  2. Success in this role therefore requires strong self-motivation, crisp and clear communication, a highly collaborative approach, and the ability to work effectively across teams and disciplines.
  3. The tenacity and perseverance to drive a complex project all the way from conception to production.

Skills

Required

  • Experience building and maintaining complex software systems.
  • A solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
  • A commitment to continuous learning and improvement, and curiosity for new technologies, techniques, and patterns in pursuit of engineering excellence.
  • An ability to communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to discuss complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams and external partners.
  • A track record of building and sustaining healthy long-term relationships within your team, and beyond its boundaries.
  • The tenacity and perseverance to drive a complex project all the way from conception to production.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on software development experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring.
  • Development and operational experience with REST and/or gRPC services (either server-to-server or mobile client facing).
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Time spent architecting, building, supporting or otherwise working on cloud-native (e.g. AWS) applications with resilience as a core feature.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
  • Understanding of modern networking and experience using traffic tools for tracing.
  • An appreciation for, and understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography (e.g. PKI, certificate management, JWT).
  • Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g. Aurora, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Oracle).

What the JD emphasized

  • building systems at scale
  • resilient and reliable distributed software systems at Apple's scale
  • hands-on in all phases
  • operate, monitoring, and providing on-call support