About the position
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can accomplish. Would you like the stimulation and challenges of building world-class, extraordinary scalable systems that power App Store, Music, TV+, Fitness+, Arcade and many more? Then this is the opportunity for you at Apple! We strive to provide a flawless experience for millions of developers and customers. The ASE (Apple Services Engineering) Core Services team is looking for a Software Engineer to help build creative features that will enhance the experience of using these services for our millions of customers around the world. We will work on building and enhancing large-scale systems using distributed data stores with a strong focus on scalability and performance. We partner with a variety of cross and multi-functional team members from a diverse array of groups across the company. You will join a hands-on development team that fosters creativity and generates novel solutions based on engineering excellence. And will be a part of an innovative impactful team making a difference.
Responsibilities
- Be part of the server team that powers customer-facing features within Apple client applications.
- Work multi-functionally with various teams across Apple to deliver exciting features to customers.
- Focus on web service performance, considering metrics like median, 95th percentile, and 99th percentile.
- Question assumptions and seek sophisticated technical solutions.
- Help develop and enhance the MusicKit - Apple Music APIs for partners and the developer community.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science.
- 5 years experience in a related field.
- Knowledge of Java or functional languages like Clojure.
- Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills.
- Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs or other API technologies.
- Experience with NoSQL or document-oriented data stores (e.g., Apache Solr, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB).
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Agility to build customer-facing features that span multi-functional teams.
- Experience writing effective unit and integration tests.
- Outstanding debugging, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.
- Interest in music and playlists.
