Senior Software Engineer - Java - Messaging Orchestration for Apple iCloud, Apple Music and more
- london, england, United Kingdom
- £100 - £150 Per Hour
Job Description
Description
The ASE Customer Engagement engineering team is responsible for building the platform that enables communicating with millions of customers every day, across services such as Apple iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, Apple Wallet and more.
In this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, improving and maintaining server-side applications that process requests at phenomenal scale, with low latency and high availability. These applications transform and optimise self-service configurations (including campaigns and signals) maintained by operations teams using tooling for runtime execution. At runtime, they orchestrate customer messaging to millions of users with sophisticated targeting, personalisation and A/B testing across Apple Services.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience designing and building loosely coupled and eventually consistent distributed systems
- History of driving the architecture and adoption of reusable platform capabilities and shared services used by multiple teams
- Proven experience designing and building production-grade APIs using microservices written in Java
- Communicating effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI agents into software development workflows to improve code quality, facilitate debugging, enhance code reviews, and maintain comprehensive documentation
- Expert at writing clean, high-performance, and maintainable code in Java
- Proficient at using test-driven development to empower CI/CD workflows
- Strong knowledge of data structures, concurrency patterns, and software design principles
- Track record of technically leading software development projects across multiple teams
- Experience making critical architectural decisions that have long-term impact on product success, scalability and reliability
- Background working with high-scale, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users