Senior Software Engineer, Wallet & Payments at Scale

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Wallet, Payments & Commerce to design and own scalable distributed systems spanning from backend services to client integrations.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor peers, and ship reliable platforms, including high-volume REST and gRPC services, with strong focus on observability, deployment pipelines, and cloud-native patterns. This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration across teams, and the ability to operate across

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting distributed systems at large scale.
• Strong knowledge of REST and gRPC services.
• Proven ability to design for containerization and cloud-native apps.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.
• No formal degree required; strong problem-solving and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain mission-critical distributed systems at large scale.
• Drive technical discussions and define engineering strategy across teams.
• Write specifications and documentation to drive consensus.
• Mentor peers and review code to uphold engineering excellence.
• Design and operate high-volume REST and/or gRPC services.
• Provide on-call support and contribute to monitoring and observability.
• Collaborate with global teams and external partners.
• Lead complex projects end-to-end from conception to production.

Skills

Java or Kotlin

Spring

REST & gRPC

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Networking & tracing

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Wallet, Payments & Commerce to design and own scalable distributed systems spanning from backend services to client integrations.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor peers, and ship reliable platforms, including high-volume REST and gRPC services, with strong focus on observability, deployment pipelines, and cloud-native patterns. This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration across teams, and the ability to operate across