Senior Software Engineer – Content Management Systems

Marcom is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple’s consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences. Marcom's Interactive Engineering team works on many high-impact projects that serve various Apple lines of business. We use the latest in open source technologies and continue to evolve and deliver solutions on a worldwide scale. Working with a variety of multi-functional teams, the Interactive Engineering group brings it all together to deliver the interactive experiences with an excellent group of software engineers while having fun along the way. This team is exciting and fast-paced; it’s a great place for people with exacting standards who want their work to matter. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, architect, develop, and evolve modern, distributed, scalable, and high-performance Content Management Systems (CMS) using Java, open-source technologies, and modern software engineering practices. This role is critical to the evolution of Apple’s brand as you will be working with the teams taking apple.com to the next phase of its evolution. The role is primarily focused on CMS engineering, content architecture, content modeling, workflows, versioning, localization, publishing, APIs, integrations, search, and large-scale content delivery. The engineer will provide technical leadership in designing and delivering complex CMS capabilities and will drive solutions across the end-to-end content lifecycle. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building modern CMS platforms, solving complex content management problems at scale, and leveraging AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows to improve both CMS capabilities and software development productivity.

This role provides an opportunity to provide technical leadership while building modern, distributed, and large-scale Content Management Systems that power apple.com and enable content to be created, managed, governed, localized, and delivered across multiple digital experiences. You will work across Java backend services, CMS platforms, content architecture, content modeling, workflows, APIs, integrations, search, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and AI-powered engineering workflows. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to lead the technical design of complex CMS capabilities, influence architectural direction, mentor engineers, and remain hands-on in implementation. The role is suited for an engineer who enjoys solving complex CMS and distributed-systems problems at scale and is excited about the evolution of CMS platforms through headless architectures, open-source technologies, automation, and AI agents. The primary focus of this role is CMS engineering, technical design leadership, and end-to-end ownership of complex CMS capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience designing and developing complex, highly available, and scalable enterprise web applications using Java and the JVM ecosystem.
• Expertise in Java (Java 11 or later) and the Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem, including Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, and reactive or asynchronous programming models.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience, with a focus on fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Experience architecting and delivering distributed Java microservices and RESTful or GraphQL web services at scale.
• Experience designing and architecting SQL and NoSQL data models for large content repositories.
• Expertise in JVM performance tuning, profiling, concurrency, and memory management in production systems.
• Experience with Java build and CI/CD tooling such as Maven or Gradle, Git, and Jenkins, and with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong testing discipline with JUnit, Mockito, and integration/contract testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, and build consensus across creative, technical, and business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Java-based CMS or content platforms, including custom component, workflow, and API development.
• Experience with CMS, DAM, and PIM solutions and integrations supporting content-as-a-service at scale with high security standards.
• Experience with multi-tier caching and search technologies for real-time content delivery (Redis, Memcached, CDN, Elasticsearch, Solr).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience with distributed logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React / Vue / Angular) for CMS authoring interfaces.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML models and AI coding assistants into applications and engineering workflows to drive automation and operational excellence.