The Apple Services group is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the InfoApps organization. This role involves building distributed services and event-driven pipelines to support Apple News and related applications. The engineer will work in a collaborative team environment, influencing technical decisions and utilizing modern development tools. The position requires a strong focus on designing reliable systems that can handle massive scale.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• 5-10 years of demonstrated experience in shipping scalable, maintainable, and testable backend systems
• Strong background in Java and Spring for backend service development
• Experience designing and building high-scale, distributed backend services with event-driven architectures and pipelines, such as Kafka
• Solid experience with data stores, including data modeling and schema design for production systems
• Proven experience as the technical lead for a team of engineers, setting architecture and direction, and mentoring others
• Hands-on experience with distributed NoSQL databases, especially Apache Cassandra
• Experience in search technologies such as Apache Solr
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and build tools such as Gradle or Bazel

• Build distributed services and event-driven pipelines that ingest, process, and serve content at scale
• Lead projects from design through launch, defining architecture and modeling data for performance and growth
• Ensure systems remain reliable in production environments
• Drive technical decisions across partner teams and raise the bar for software development practices
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to enhance design, coding, and testing processes

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.