Job Details

Software Engineering Manager, Commerce

Cupertino, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jul 30, 2025

Role Number: 200614493

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 155 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s outstanding integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, flexible, and multi-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Description

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce group is looking for an extraordinary, hands-on engineering manager to join our platform engineering team. The Commerce team provides the transactional engine for App Store, iTunes Music Store, Apple Music, iBook Store, Apple TV+ and more. Our platform is the highest volume digital content store in the world, serving billions of transactions daily in more than 155 countries.

We are looking for a self-starting, ambitious software engineering manager who to join the ASE Commerce Engineering team. You’ll build services and application components, shared across applications, to support very high levels of transactional integrity, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and security. You will also contribute to the architecture, design and implementation of top-level user visible features, with an emphasis on identifying components that can be used across different scenarios and domains.

If you’re a self-starting, ambitious software engineering manager who is not afraid to question assumptions or charge head-first into gray areas, this is the opportunity for you! Excellent written and interpersonal skills are a must to collaborate in our multi-functional environments. You should have in-depth experience developing and leading teams that develop large-scale web-based applications. Excellent understanding of relational databases and data-modeling techniques are needed, and Voldemort or other NoSQL knowledge is a plus. Experience in building and working with RESTful web services with partner integrations is a plus too. We partner with a variety of cross-functional team members from a diverse array of other exciting groups across the company. If you like the stimulation and challenges of building systems and features exposed to hundreds of millions of transacting users, and you want to make a difference, you will find Apple Media Products Engineering to be a fast-paced, rewarding environment where the best engineers and scientists collaborate to deliver fantastic products and features to our customers.

You will work on features that touch all Apple Services Engineering Commerce services — from indirect channel subscriptions management, API integrations with partners including other Apple teams, external integrators and internal Financial systems, messaging infrastructure and new features coming to the Apple product ecosystem. You will ensure that language and local market requirements are understood and supported from a technical perspective. You will find opportunities for software reuse across problem domains, design and code components/libraries/frameworks to support that re-use, and refactor code to achieve higher levels of leverage in the codebase. Using 3rd party and hand-rolled solutions, you will build reusable capabilities that will be used by other teams in the Commerce group. Be ready to make something extraordinary when you come here. Dynamic, inspiring people and innovative, industry-defining technologies are the norm at Apple.

The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with our products and services. The same passion for innovation also applies to our business practices - strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. You should join the Apple Services Engineering Commerce Team if you want to help deliver the next amazing Apple product.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 5-10 years of experience as a software engineering manager

• Experience mentoring, coaching and evaluating performance of other engineers

• Experience building detailed engineering team capacity plans in partnership with product and/or program managers

• Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques

• Strong object oriented design and analysis skills

• Experience writing components/frameworks/libraries that achieve software leverage

• Experience integrating with 3rd party hosted APIs in a scalable, secure manner

• Experience working in a large code base

• Experience building highly scalable, secure RESTful web services

• Experience with relational databases, JDBC, and object relational frameworks like Hibernate, JPA, etc.

• Experience writing unit and integration tests with frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, etc.

• Willing to take ownership and set direction, especially in gray areas

• Strong sense of responsibility

• Hands-on coder, with ability to write clear, concise, coherent code

• Superb verbal and written communications skills

• Excellent judgment and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions. Ability to self-direct when necessary

• Ability to simultaneously work with and prioritize the needs of multiple teams and/or partner organizations

• Fastidious attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 2-5 years of experience managing software engineering managers

• At least 2-5 years of experience managing teams located in multiple offices, geographies and timezones

• Superb presentation skills, with prior experience presenting to senior executive leadership

• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, etc.

• Experience using NoSQL solutions like Cassandra, Voldemort, Memcached, etc.

• TCP/IP networking experience, with protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SSL

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $198,300 and $342,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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