Senior Backend Engineer - G&A Solutions Engineering

Summary

Imagine what you could do here… At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. What inspires you? Creating something new and finding solutions to complex problems? Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

IS&T G&A Solutions Engineering team is about to embark on one of its biggest transformation initiatives. The program comprises a complete transformation of a custom built system to a cloud platform. We are looking for a Integrations Lead engineer to work on the Integrations track with our team of high-performing software engineers. Our teams foster a collaborative environment with creative, smart & fun people using state of the art technologies. Engineering excellence is expected. Come join us for this once in a lifetime opportunity in building solutions for Apple that has worldwide impact.

Description

As an Integration Lead Engineer you will be part of the core team that builds integrations to/from a SaaS/cloud-based ERP systems both external and internal to Apple. The team would be tasked to deliver 300+ integrations across the platform which will re-define the core Business processes for Apple.

The candidate must be hands on coder doing active development and lead an onsite/offshore team. He/She should possess excellent technical leadership skills, be a pro-active solution-oriented individual with strong written and verbal communication skills.

At Apple, code quality and functional quality is aways at the forefront and one of the key measures of success.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Design and Development of a subset of Integrations.
• Make recommendations on design and implementation approaches for solutions related to System Design, Security, System Architecture and Interfaces.
• Ensure consistent Design and Implementation patterns thereby providing technical leadership.
• Bring efficiencies in operational activities including application monitoring, failure processing and integration failures, auditing and Business Insights.
• Participate in communities to remain connected with Cloud Computing/SaaS solution providers.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of Software development experience designing and building commercial/enterprise class backend platform/components
• Software development experience designing and building commercial/enterprise class backend platform/components.
• 2-4 years of experience on SaaS, Paas, RaaS solutions.
• Expert level skills of Core Java + Spring
• Understanding of web service technologies such as REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, SAML, WSDL.
• Ability to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment and effectively collaborating across teams.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, scalability and fault tolerant designs
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good Oral and written english communication skills
• Experience building highly performing and scalable backend components (a keen eye to performance/responsiveness of the backend services is a must for this role)
• Has demonstrated past experience of building scalable RESTful Web Services
• Ability to wear multiple hats and a can-do attitude
• Experience with messaging platforms like Kafka.
• Solid knowledge of application performance improvement techniques and caching solutions
• Excellent communication, leadership and presentation skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Fluency in English and Chinese

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with NoSQL DB’s like Mongo. Cassandra is a huge plus
• Familiarity with UI stack (HTML/JQuery/ Angular is a huge plus)
• Familiarity with Kafka is a plus
• Reactive Development using Spring WebFlux or Reactor.
• Work experience with Document transformation using XML and XSLT
• Search Technologies like Elasticsearch, Lucene
• Knowledge of HR systems will be a big plus

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Apple provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and in accordance with local requirements. Apple is a drug-free workplace.

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Role Number: 200673539-3278