Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Apple

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan

SQL
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Postgres
Ruby
Grafana
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Expert level
Austin

More information about location

Apple

Personal technology company

Open for applications

Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan

SQL
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Postgres
Ruby
Grafana
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Expert level
Austin

More information about location

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

  • 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

Desirable

  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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

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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