Job Details

Software Engineering Manager, Retail Foundations

Austin, Texas, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: May 01, 2025

Role Number: 200602825

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work! Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world.

Apple Retail Engineering team builds the software systems that power all the magical experiences we offer to our Apple Store customers, be it digital or in-person. As a part of this organization, Retail Engineering Foundations group focuses on developer productivity, shared runtime systems, and common frameworks & platforms for all Retail Engineering teams.

When joining Retail Foundations as a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll help plan for, design, and manage frameworks, platforms, and systems that countless Apple customers and employees rely on every day. Together, we’ll explore all the ways to improve how Apple Store operates, freeing our employees to do what they do best, and crafting magical experiences for our customers.

Description

As a hands-on Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Software Engineers and guide them in architecting, designing, developing, testing, documenting, improving, and maintaining code, mostly in Java (and other languages as needed), focusing on foundational systems, frameworks, and platforms for Retail Engineering.

You will partake in every aspect of your projects, from planning to design to implementation and future iterations, and you will be encouraged to play an extended role in collaboratively planning and designing solutions that address the requirements of many Retail Engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, proactive, and results-driven with a servant-leader mindset. Attention to detail, dedication to providing high-quality solutions modeling engineering excellence, and ability to guide their team to work towards timely delivery of cross-functional projects are all crucial qualities needed to work at Apple as a Software Engineering Manager.

The ideal candidate will also possess excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with all Retail Engineering teams, various internal and external partners, and senior leaders of Apple.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.

• 8+ years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity with 3+ years direct people management experience leading 5+ software engineers. Experience cultivating brand new teams from scratch strongly preferred.

• 5+ years proven experience designing, implementing, and shipping high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud-based distributed systems, including mastery in API/RPC design and implementation.

• 5+ years proven experience using relational, NewSQL and NoSQL databases, including mastery in schema design, query optimization, and orchestrating sophisticated, transactional data interactions between databases.

• Proficiency in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on leading teams implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, mastery of long-form writing as well as leadership presentations.

• Track record of delivering distributed systems projects with multiple, globally distributed stakeholders, while actively hiring, growing, and mentoring junior and senior software engineer team members.

• Experience with Java and one of Rust/C++/Go, including mastery in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.

• Comfortable using CI/CD tools to build, test, deploy, and release containerized software applications on cloud-based Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, etc.).

• Extensive knowledge of networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing, OSI model, etc.).

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