Java Backend Engineer- Retail Engineering

Lex; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable backend services using modern Java and cloud-native technologies. You will work across the full SDLC from requirements to production operations, focusing on distributed systems, microservices, caching, databases, and API design.

You will mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and help establish engineering best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong Java backend experience.
• Extensive use of Spring Boot and Spring Framework in production.
• Strong REST API, microservices, and distributed-systems knowledge.
• Hands-on MongoDB, Kafka, and Redis experience; Akamai/edge caching exposure.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices for high-traffic apps.
• Architect distributed systems with data stores like MongoDB and Redis.
• Build Kafka-based event-driven workflows and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate on performance tuning, caching optimization, and observability.

Skills

Java backend development

Spring Boot

REST APIs & Microservices

Distributed systems design

Caching strategies

Kafka event streaming

Redis caching

Cloud & edge delivery (Akamai)

Tools

MongoDB

Kafka

Redis

Akamai CDN

AWS (EC2, S3, EKS)

Kubernetes

Job description

Summary

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we craft products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined — and now can’t imagine living without. Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable backend services using modern Java and cloud-native technologies. You will work across the complete software development lifecycle — from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, production operations, and continuous improvement. The role requires strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, caching, databases, API design, performance optimization, and production reliability. You will also contribute to technical design discussions, mentor engineers, participate in code and architecture reviews, and help establish engineering best practices across the team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable and reliable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices following modern backend engineering practices.
• Design distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, large data volumes, and demanding latency requirements.
• Work with MongoDB and other data stores to design efficient data models, indexes, queries, and persistence strategies.
• Develop and maintain Kafka-based event-driven systems, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, retries, and failure handling.
• Design and optimize caching solutions using Redis or equivalent technologies to improve application performance and scalability.
• Work with Akamai/CDN and edge technologies to optimize content delivery, traffic management, caching, security, and application performance.
• Design solutions for high availability, fault tolerance, resiliency, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation.
• Analyze application and infrastructure performance and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Participate in production operations, incident management, root-cause analysis, and service reliability improvements.

  Minimum Qualifications

  • 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience in Java backend development.
  • Extensive experience building production applications using Spring Boot and Spring Framework.
  • Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and backend design patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with MongoDB, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, and performance considerations.
  • Strong experience with Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Redis or other caching technologies.
  • Experience with Akamai, CDN, reverse proxy, edge caching, or similar traffic-management technologies.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS services, including EC2, EKS, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, ElastiCache, or equivalent services.
  • Experience with Redis/Valkey, cache invalidation strategies, TTL management, distributed caching, and cache failure scenarios.
  • Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, including partitioning, replication, ordering, consumer lag, rebalancing, retries, and exactly-once/at-least-once processing.
  • Experience with MongoDB replication, sharding, indexing, aggregation pipelines, and high-volume workloads.
  • Experience with Akamai CDN, edge caching, traffic routing, bot management, WAF, or related edge technologies.
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
  • Knowledge of application and API security, including OAuth2, JWT, TLS, OWASP, authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Experience building event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
  • Experience with performance engineering, load testing, capacity planning, and production tuning.
  • Familiarity with Generative AI, LLM-based developer tools, AI-assisted software development, or agentic workflows is a plus.
  • Experience working in large-scale engineering organizations with globally distributed teams is a plus.

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