Staff Software Engineer - Retail Platform & Marcom

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Retail and Marcom Engineering in Austin.

You will architect, design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems primarily in Java, with Spring-based patterns and cloud-native design. You will lead projects across distributed teams, apply strong OOP and design pattern knowledge, and drive reliable, scalable architectures across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity.
• 4+ years proven experience with Java, including mastery in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.
• Mastery in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (GoF).
• Experience building production applications with the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud).
• Experience with cloud platforms and IaC, containerization, and orchestration using tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, test, document, improve, and maintain backend code mostly in Java.
• Lead software projects and coordinate work across multiple teams.
• Design scalable, high-performance cloud-based distributed systems and services.

Skills

Java

Spring

OOP

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Microservices

Databases

Messaging

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Retail and Marcom Engineering in Austin.

You will architect, design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems primarily in Java, with Spring-based patterns and cloud-native design. You will lead projects across distributed teams, apply strong OOP and design pattern knowledge, and drive reliable, scalable architectures across on-prem and cloud environments.