Backend Engineer - G&A Solutions Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 28, 2026. Apple scores B on the Alion truth index.
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.
Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) is IS&T's dedicated technology partner for Apple's general and administrative functions - including people, finance, facilities, legal, and security. The team builds and delivers integrated technology solutions that keep these functions running efficiently and securely at global scale. GSE also works closely with business teams to develop custom tools that improve productivity and bring greater automation and consistency to G&A operations across Apple.
Description
You will be part of the core team that builds services and integrations to/from a SaaS/cloud-based ERP systems both external and internal to Apple. This is a hands-on role in the development of software systems to support existing and new product features. This is a highly collaborative role that will require working with many different teams and internal customers in a fast paced environment. It is a great opportunity for an experienced and results-oriented person who enjoys working with cross-functional teams.
At Apple, code quality and functional quality is aways at the forefront and one of the key measures of success.
Minimum Qualifications
4+ years of software development experience designing and building commercial/enterprise class backend platform/components.
Deep understanding, and strong hands on experience - Multithreading, Networking (including non-blocking IO), HTTP and REST APIs.
Understanding of web service technologies such as REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, SAML, WSDL.
Expert level skills of Core Java + Spring
Working experience in SQL and NoSQL DBs
Strong knowledge of concurrency, scalability and fault tolerant designs
Experience building highly performing and scalable backend components (a keen eye to performance/responsiveness of the backend services is a must for this role).
Solid knowledge of application performance improvement techniques and caching solutions.
Be an advocate and driver for performance optimization, automation, and unit/integration tests
Excellent debugging, critical thinking, and communication skills
Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
Strong problem solving skills.
Ability to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment and effectively collaborating across teams.
Good Oral and written english communication skills.
Tireless attention to detail
Ability to wear multiple hats and a can-do attitude.
Preferred Qualifications
Working knowledge Spring Reactor or reactive development
Working knowledge on gRPC is a plus
Working experience in Search platforms like SOLR, Elastic
Experience on working with SaaS, Paas, RaaS solutions
Knowledge of HR systems will be a big plus