Engineering Manager - Backend Systems for Card & Savings

Apple; New City (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Card & Savings engineering leadership role seeks an Engineering Manager to guide backend teams delivering Java/Kotlin services, data stores, and messaging pipelines at scale. You will balance hands-on leadership with collaboration across product, design, and partner teams, shaping roadmaps, standards, and reliability.

You will drive architectural decisions, champion quality, and mentor engineers to meet performance, security, and regulatory requirements in a fast-paced financial

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems environment.
• Proven experience managing and growing a team of software engineers in a fast-paced product.
• Deep expertise in Java or Kotlin, with hands-on experience designing services for scale and performance.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and API design.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and high-throughput messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders.
• Track record of delivering high-quality software on time in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.
• Exceptional communication skills — able to convey technical complexity clearly to both engineering teams, partners and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers working on Apple Card and Apple Savings features and infrastructure.
• Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems, ensuring solutions meet scale, performance, and reliability requirements.
• Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, and operational excellence to support high-stakes financial products.
• Partner with product managers, operations, and cross-functional engineering teams to define technical roadmaps and deliver against them.
• Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into clear, achievable engineering plans.
• Champion a culture of quality — setting high standards for design reviews, code reviews, and incident response organizations.
• Communicate technical strategy, team progress, and risks clearly to senior leadership and partner.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain engineering talent to scale the team effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Cloud

Kafka

SQS

Relational DBs

NoSQL DBs

API design

CI/CD

Job description

Apple Card & Savings engineering leadership role seeks an Engineering Manager to guide backend teams delivering Java/Kotlin services, data stores, and messaging pipelines at scale. You will balance hands-on leadership with collaboration across product, design, and partner teams, shaping roadmaps, standards, and reliability.

You will drive architectural decisions, champion quality, and mentor engineers to meet performance, security, and regulatory requirements in a fast-paced financial