Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
Imagine what you could do here at Apple. Innovation runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.
The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.
Our teams build the internal software applications used daily by the people who create the Apple products you know and love. Come join a passionate and skilled group of developers, designers, and product folks that care deeply about our users and the work they do.
Description
We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer with expertise in Node.js, React, Typescript, Javascript, and PostgreSQL. You will architect, develop and ship features with your cross-functional product and UX partners, as well as your fellow software engineers. You will also be expected to participate in the feature design process with our lean and talented team, drive new functionality, contribute to architectural and performance improvements, and overall bring your best every day to our team.
User engagement, feature ideas, roadmap planning, and technical discussions are very much a team sport in our organization, and we want you to come with opinions, best practices, and great ideas.
In this role you will:
- Plan, develop, and ship new features alongside UX, product, and your fellow developers and designers, as well as users and stakeholders
- Write maintainable & testable application code across the tech stack - from frontend, to API, to data layer - with great attention to detail, testing (unit and E2E), and documentation
- Review code and collaborate on pull requests with your teammates
Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks that affect user workflows
- Collaborate constantly with users, cross-functional teams, team members, leadership, and stakeholders to move projects along, gain clarity, and be able to ship the best possible experience and solution
- Constantly learn and improve your own technical skills by reading code, documentation, running experiments and talking to your colleagues
- Own features and solutions across the tech stack, from concept/RFC/ideation to shipping them to production, iterating, and maintaining them long-term
- Hold yourself and your team members accountable to the high standards of design, quality, and execution that exist at Apple
Minimum Qualifications
- 10 years experience working on complex web applications across the entire stack with a skilled team, with expertise in Node.js and Typescript/Javascript
- Experience building robust HTTP APIs and backend services
- Experience building delightful and beautiful user experiences using React or other Javascript frontend frameworks
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Proactive, get-it-done attitude, and motivation that drives you to continually grow and challenge yourself
- A strong passion to produce high quality software that is valuable, usable, and delightful for users
- Experience and eagerness with modern web development best practices such as testing, pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration & delivery, an iterative approach to development, and continuous improvement / retrospectives
- A collaborative, team-first mindset: you must be an exceptional collaborator with your fellow software engineers, and your cross-functional UX and product team members
- Demonstrable experience working with a customer-first mindset, collaborating constantly with UX, product, and stakeholders to solve our users’ problems every day
- Excellent communication skills and the proven ability to express technical ideas, teach and mentor other software engineers around you, but also communicate well with non-technical team members
- Excellent at iterative development including strong prototyping / spiking skills
- Exposure to Ruby on Rails is a plus as we are currently migrating from Rails to Node
- Experience building and scaling complex applications using SQL
- A data-driven mindset and experience using tools like Grafana
- Manufacturing, supply chain, or logistics experience, interest, or exposure is a plus, but not required
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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