Apple
Principal Software Architect, Finance Technology Platform
$262K–$394K
Sunnyvale, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years required; 15+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architect and build Apple’s multi-tenant Finance Technology Platform, including its agentic AI foundations for end-to-end financial transaction processing.
What you'll do
- Define the platform’s end-to-end architecture and shared patterns for financial processing, from ingestion through settlement and reconciliation.
- Design agent infrastructure, orchestration, evaluation, safety controls, and human escalation for finance workflows.
- Set standards for financial correctness, auditability, and platform use across teams; partner with Finance, Controllership, Tax, and Audit.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including expertise in large-scale distributed transactional systems.
- Lead-architect experience with a multi-team platform featuring multi-tenancy, extensibility, versioned APIs, and configuration-driven behavior.
- Production experience building AI-native applications, including agent harnesses and modern agentic technologies.
- Experience in financial or transaction-processing domains, regulated or audited systems, and technical leadership across complex organizations.
Nice to have
- 15+ years of experience, including finance, accounting, or payments platform architecture at global scale.
- Experience with financial lifecycles, sub-ledgers, continuous reconciliation, or agentic systems taking real-world actions.
Pay
$262,500 and $394,000 (base salary range)
Tools
EDI, cXML, OCR/document AI, CDC feeds, vector search, embeddings, agent frameworks, graph orchestration libraries
AI focus
Build agentic AI foundations for financial processing, including agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, observability, guardrails, human escalation, and controlled actions; keep money movement, posting, and control points deterministic and verifiable.
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