Senior Software Engineer - Digital Asset Management

Summary
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.

Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes. Marcom’s Digital Asset Management system (DAM) serves as the backbone repository of all in progress and completed assets used in Apple Marketing. Digital Asset Management focuses on developing a deep knowledge of Marcom's content development processes for a diverse portfolio of digital assets at massive scale. Using this knowledge and extensive experience with enterprise digital asset management, implement and evangelize solutions which will streamline Marcom's content management workflow. A key part of the job Is understanding end-to-end business processes in the Asset Management realm and implement solutions that meet these business needs.

Description
We are currently seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Senior Software Engineer with experience in back end web application and API development. This role is critical to the development of services built on top of existing and new DAM capabilities enabling syndication, global asset distribution, and delivery pipelines.

The Full Stack Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with the members of multiple teams to enable a modern services stack unlocking the ability for multiple partners across Apple and beyond to deposit and consume approved assets.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include but will not be limited to:
• Leading other developers in a fast paced environment under aggressive goals and timelines
• Maintaining outstanding attention to details and a deep commitment to excellence within the team
• Working equally well with people in creative and technical positions
• Forging trusting relationships within a diverse team and across organizations
• Working closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirement, define solutions and determine future strategies
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional software development experience designing and developing complex, highly available and scalable enterprise APIs using Java/J2EE technologies
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing large scale enterprise APIs for Digital Asset Management systems
• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience with a focus on fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object-oriented design
• Deep understanding of core web technologies including XML, HTML5, CSS, client/server-side-scripting languages such as JavaScript along with the ability to build a reliable, efficient, web services development using RESTful implementations.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of core DAM principles
• Experience with multi-caching solutions for real-time content delivery
• Experience in AWS/Cloud Technologies
• An appreciation for quality with experience writing unit tests and collaborating with quality engineering to develop test plans
• In depth knowledge of source version control software (Git)
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and solid QA automation processes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and configuration management systems such as Kubernetes or similar grid computing technologies, CI build tools such as Jenkins, and distributed logging and monitoring tools like Splunk
• Experience with any modern JavaScript frameworks (React/Vue/Angular), as well as designing and architecting SQL/NoSQL databases for scalable database schema designs
  
  

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Role Number: 200672878-1052

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