Senior Backend Engineer, Finance Platform — High-Scale

Apple, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Discretionary bonuses

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Finance Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will help design and operate high-throughput distributed services that power money movements, settlements, and reconciliations across the global financial backbone. You will collaborate with Platform Architects, Finance, Controllership, and Accounting to enforce deterministic idempotency, audit trails, and cross-team architectural RFCs, while mentoring engineers and raising engineering

Qualifications

• 8 years of professional software development experience in high-scale distributed backends.
• 8 years of Java or Kotlin (JVM) experience with concurrency, memory management, and GC tuning.
• 8 years of computer science fundamentals: OOD, algorithms, data structures, design patterns.
• 8 years of database architecture: relational and distributed stores; indexing and isolation semantics.
• 8 years of Microservices & API design: REST/gRPC, schema versioning, distributed transactions.
• 8 years of high-volume messaging & event streaming: Kafka or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Core Financial Engine: design, build, operate high-throughput distributed services across the transaction lifecycle.
• Auditability: ensure data integrity, immutable event streams, and SOX-compliant audit trails.

Skills

Java/Kotlin (JVM)

Distributed systems

Concurrency & performance

PostgreSQL/Oracle

Microservices & API design

Kafka & streaming

SOX compliance

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Finance Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will help design and operate high-throughput distributed services that power money movements, settlements, and reconciliations across the global financial backbone. You will collaborate with Platform Architects, Finance, Controllership, and Accounting to enforce deterministic idempotency, audit trails, and cross-team architectural RFCs, while mentoring engineers and raising engineering