Austin-Based Senior Backend Engineer, Customer Systems

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and deliver high-scale services for customer systems. You will own end-to-end features, from design through production observability, and collaborate across teams to build resilient, secure cloud-based APIs.

You will work with Java, Spring, and WebFlux, optimize JVM performance, and contribute to API design patterns, non-blocking pipelines, and scalable microservices used by millions of users daily.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years professional software development experience.
• 2+ years Java experience including concurrency and memory management.
• Strong OOP, data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience with Spring ecosystem (Boot, MVC, Security, Data, Cloud).
• Solid JVM internals knowledge (GC, JIT, memory).
• Experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant cloud distributed systems.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (HTTP, TLS, DNS, CDN).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of features from design to testing, deployment and observability.
• Drive engineering best practices: code reviews, testing, CI/CD improvements, documentation.
• Architect non-blocking, event-driven pipelines handling millions of requests.
• Contribute to API design and contract-first development for backward compatibility.

Skills

Java backend

Spring ecosystem

Distributed systems

JVM internals

OOP principles

API design

Education

B.S. in CS/CE or related

Tools

Spring Boot

CI/CD

OpenAPI/Swagger

Protobuf

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and deliver high-scale services for customer systems. You will own end-to-end features, from design through production observability, and collaborate across teams to build resilient, secure cloud-based APIs.

You will work with Java, Spring, and WebFlux, optimize JVM performance, and contribute to API design patterns, non-blocking pipelines, and scalable microservices used by millions of users daily.