Software Developer - Java - Messaging Orchestration for Apple iCloud, Apple Music and more
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Software and Services
The role is in Apple Services Engineering (ASE) in London. ASE is the team behind high profile services such as Apple iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and more. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to design and build the software for our customer engagement platform, used within Apple Services for message orchestration.
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Key Qualifications
- Experience in designing and building production APIs using micro-services written in Java is required
- Skilled at writing clean and high-performant code in Java
- Skilled at using test driven development to empower CI/CD workflows
- Using data structures, concurrency and design patterns
- Communicating effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
Description
The ASE Customer Engagement engineering team is responsible for building the platform that enables communicating with millions of customers every day, across services such as Apple iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, Apple Wallet and more.
In this team, you would be responsible for designing, building, improving and maintaining server-side apps that process requests at phenomenal scale, with low latency and high availability, supporting customer messaging features for our Apple Services. These apps orchestrate customer messaging built by operations teams using our self-service platform. This includes targeting, personalising and A/B testing messages to grow our active user base for Apple Services.
The responsibilities as a member of the team include:
* Contributing code to systems owned by different sub-teams involved in messaging orchestration
* Advocate and apply best coding practices and conventions
* Working with our QA and SRE teams to establish reliability and quality goals
* Frequently collaborating with multiple partner engineering teams and consumers of our platform
* Representing our team in meetings and driving consensus across participants
* Creating reusability across our features and our engineering stack e.g. utilising standard libraries and contributing to their development
* Creating technical design documents and driving consensus across stakeholders
Experience in Java core programming is required.
Education & Experience
Undergraduate degree related to computing or equivalent experience