Senior Backend Engineer: Distributed Finance Platform

Apple Inc.; California; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in California seeks a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer to design and operate high-throughput distributed services powering financial flows. You will implement immutable ledgers, idempotent processes, and end-to-end auditability for enterprise-grade transactions.

The role requires strong Java/Spring expertise, APIs, and distributed systems experience, with collaboration across Platform Architects, Finance, Controllership, and Accounting. Lead technical RFCs and mentor peers.

Qualifications

• 6 years experience building production Java applications with the Spring ecosystem.
• Experience designing high-scale, highly available cloud distributed systems.
• Expertise in API design including REST, gRPC, GraphQL and OpenAPI.
• Experience with messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• BSCS or equivalent professional work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate high-throughput distributed services for financial processing.
• Ensure data integrity, idempotency, and end-to-end auditability.
• Lead architecture discussions and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with Platform Architects, Finance, Controllership, and Accounting.

Skills

Java ecosystem

Spring framework

Reactive programming with WebFlux

RESTful APIs

gRPC / GraphQL

OpenAPI/Swagger; Protobuf

Contract testing

Distributed systems design

SOX compliance awareness

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle

NoSQL databases

Job description

Apple Inc. in California seeks a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer to design and operate high-throughput distributed services powering financial flows. You will implement immutable ledgers, idempotent processes, and end-to-end auditability for enterprise-grade transactions.

The role requires strong Java/Spring expertise, APIs, and distributed systems experience, with collaboration across Platform Architects, Finance, Controllership, and Accounting. Lead technical RFCs and mentor peers.