Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Creativity Apps

**Cupertino, California, United States**

**Software and Services**

**Summary**

Posted: **Jan 15, 2025**

Weekly Hours: **40**

Role Number: **200586983**

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! As a member of our Creativity Apps team, you will help shape the next generation of applications and tools by working with pioneering technologies.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a team where you will play a key role in setting the direction and architecture of the backend system and services. You will work with cross-functional teams, QA teams and to go beyond code and influence everything from the system design to project planning. This project is highly visible, and highly impactful opportunity!

**Description**

Our Creativity Apps team is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer with a proven track record of building mission-critical, high-performance backend systems. Our team is composed of a close-knit, highly collaborative group of engineers who are committed to excellence throughout the entire product lifecycle. We want team members with extensive hands-on experience in developing and enhancing backend pipelines and services, familiar with client-server communication protocol and have a strong background in designing highly scalable systems. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment and bring a strategic approach to both technical innovation and system scalability.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline

+ 7+ years of demonstrated experience in shipping scalable, maintainable, and testable backend systems

+ Expertise in Java and Spring

+ Extensive experience working with NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra and Solr

+ Experience with message or event driven architectures (such as Kafka)

+ Experience delivering high quality software at scale

+ Strong analytical and problem solving abilities, with a proven ability to troubleshoot and optimize complex systems

+ Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with partner teams

+ Committed to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Experience serving as a technical lead, and designing and building backend services for large scale systems while demonstrating the ability to articulate technical concepts

+ Familiarity with version control systems like Git, and CI/CD tools (such as Jenkins), and build tools (such as Gradle and Bazel)

+ Prioritizes unit, integration, and end-to-end tests as part of development

**Pay & Benefits**

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