Software Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

As an Engineering Manager on the ASE Commerce - Accounts team, you'll lead the evolution of Apple's commerce ecosystem in an increasingly competitive landscape. You'll build and guide a team that develops services and application components shared across applications, supporting massive scale while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and security.
You'll contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of top-level user-visible features, with an emphasis on identifying reusable components across different scenarios and domains. Partnering with diverse cross-functional teams from across Apple, you'll tackle the stimulating challenges of building systems exposed to hundreds of millions of transacting users worldwide.
If you want to make a difference and thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding environment where the best engineers collaborate to deliver fantastic products and features to our customers, this is the opportunity for you.

Manage, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers — investing in their development, setting clear expectations, and providing consistent, honest feedback
Participate actively in design reviews, technical trade-off discussions, and code quality standards to maintain a high engineering bar
Foster a strong engineering culture that values technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive delivery accountability — owning execution against commitments
Work closely with recruiting to attract and retain top-tier engineering talent and build a diverse, inclusive team.
Remove blockers and create conditions for the team to do their best work
Manage team health, resolve interpersonal issues, and sustain a collaborative working environment
Communicate team progress and needs to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Support headcount planning and team growth
Collaborate with partner teams and cross-functional partners

Comfortable splitting time between hands-on coding and team leadership responsibilities
Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, with a focus on technical growth and code quality
Interest in growing engineering talent through 1:1s, career development conversations, and feedback
Demonstrated ability to provide constructive code reviews and technical guidance to team members
Ability to jump into debugging sessions and help unblock team members
Comfortable taking ownership and providing technical direction, especially when requirements are ambiguous
Strong object-oriented design skills with experience building maintainable, extensible systems
Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable, secure RESTful web services
Hands-on engineering skills with ability to write clean, well-documented, production-ready code
Experience building reusable components, frameworks, or libraries that provide leverage across teams
Experience with relational databases and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, etc.)
Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
Experience working in and navigating large, complex codebases
Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
Sound technical judgment with ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions
BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical fields

Experience leading large cross functional projects
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques
Expertise with NoSQL data stores like Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.
Experience with monitoring, observability, and debugging production systems

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce - Accounts team powers the commerce platform behind all of Apple's services including Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud+, and subscriptions sold through the App Store. With over a billion active subscriptions driving Apple's services growth and revenue, we're dedicated to delivering best-in-class commerce experiences while creating a robust platform for our services and developers to monetize their businesses.
Our Commerce team provides the transactional engine for the App Store, iTunes Music Store, Apple Music, iBook Store, Apple TV+, and more—operating the highest volume digital content store in the world, serving billions of transactions daily across more than 155 countries.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $198,300 and $342,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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