# Software Engineering Technical Lead, Apple Card & Savings

The Apple Card & Savings team is building the financial products that put users in control of their money. We built Apple Card to reinvent how credit cards work, and we continue to launch groundbreaking features used by millions of people every day. We are looking for a technical lead who craves the challenge of architecting mission-critical systems at scale, sets technical direction across teams, and is equally at home in a design review, a production incident, or a technical negotiation with a financial partner. Description You'll lead the architecture and evolution of the distributed services that power Apple Card and Savings, while staying hands-on in code and operations. You'll be given the flexibility to drive creative solutions, the support of a talented and driven team, and the autonomy and responsibility to take full ownership of critical systems. Our team operates as DevOps: we build what we run. You'll shape the architecture of our platform through deep experience operating, monitoring, and supporting it on call, and you'll set the bar for how we ship and run software - safe, progressive releases, clear service level objectives, and automation over manual toil. You'll le

- **Id**: 4138122
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-software-engineering-technical-lead-apple-card-savings-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T23:47:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:23:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4599
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 824
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.214
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T04:16:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 148
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T06:12:07Z

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