Senior Software Engineer, Apple

Elixir (Environmental Systems)

$175.8-264.2k

Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards

SQL
Docker
Kubernetes
Postgres
Elixir
Terraform
Ansible
Phoenix
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

Apple

Personal technology company

Open for applications

Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Open for applications

$175.8-264.2k

Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards

SQL
Docker
Kubernetes
Postgres
Elixir
Terraform
Ansible
Phoenix
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Company mission

Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
  • 8+ years working experience in a software role building web applications
  • Strong skills in Elixir and experience with the BEAM in production
  • Extensive experience with SQL databases; preferably PostgreSQL

Desirable

  • Experience with Phoenix in production is expected
  • Experience and desire to apply best practices for building reliable software:
  • Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Code Review, Pair Programming, etc
  • Desire to deeply understand the technologies you are using by reading
  • Documentation, articles, and the source code of the libraries, databases, and
  • Operating systems
  • Experience with LiveView is strongly preferred Experience making Product decisions is a plus
  • Experience in a Tech Lead role is a plus

What the job involves

  • The Senior Software Engineer role will directly impact Apple’s material and carbon footprint through the development and delivery of exceptional systems and tools
  • More than purely technical, the role demands enthusiasm for grappling with complex details & scientific data sets, flexibility to quickly adapt in a shifting regulatory environment, and the fortitude to forge a path in a nascent field
  • The position is highly collaborative and works closely with Product Design, Manufacturing, Operations, Logistics, Marketing, and Policy to implement solutions that empower teams to accelerate the reduction of Apple’s Environmental footprint
  • This role requires the skills to build complex web applications, and includes being responsible for the entire stack
  • You’ll be applying those skills to environmental systems that assist in the acceleration of Apple moving to Carbon Neutral by 2030
  • Plan, shape and build new features by collaborating with users, stakeholders and other team members
  • Obsess over the user experience by engaging in deep discussions with the product design team
  • Write application code using Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, TailwindCSS, and Modern SQL, with great attention to detail, testing and documentation
  • Review code and collaborate on pull requests from your team members
  • Constantly learn and improve your own technical skills by reading code, documentation, running experiments and talking to your colleagues
  • Use ops tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Docker to deploy and maintain application services
  • Support the troubleshooting, mitigation and fixing of production issues involving our applications, databases, networks and proxies using Cloud Native technologies

Our take

With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.

Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.

The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.

Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.

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Company benefits

  • Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
  • In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
  • You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
  • Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
  • Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
  • You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
  • At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
  • Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
  • To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
  • Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
  • For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
  • Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
  • When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
  • Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
  • And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more

Company values

  • We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
  • We believe in the simple, not the complex
  • We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
  • We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
  • We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
  • We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
  • We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change

Company HQ

Cupertino, CA

Leadership

Tim Cook

(CEO, not founder)

Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America

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