Senior Software Engineering Lead - Scalable Wallet & Payments

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Lead for Wallet, Payments & Commerce in Cupertino, CA. You will architect, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems, owning end-to-end delivery from design through production.

You’ll mentor engineers, define standards, and influence across multiple teams and partners in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. The role emphasizes autonomy, architecture ownership, on-call reliability, and delivering robust services for Apple Pay,

Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Understanding of consistency, latency, and throughput trade-offs.
• Ability to influence across global teams and partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of leading complex projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
• Drive engineering strategy across teams and disciplines.
• Write specifications and documentation to drive consensus.
• Mentor peers and review code to uphold engineering excellence.
• Design and operate high-volume REST and gRPC services.
• Provide on-call support and contribute to observability strategies.
• Collaborate with global teams and external partners.
• Lead complex projects end-to-end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native design

Container orchestration

Java/Kotlin

Spring

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Education

No formal degree required

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Lead for Wallet, Payments & Commerce in Cupertino, CA. You will architect, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems, owning end-to-end delivery from design through production.

You’ll mentor engineers, define standards, and influence across multiple teams and partners in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. The role emphasizes autonomy, architecture ownership, on-call reliability, and delivering robust services for Apple Pay,