Apple
Senior Backend Engineer, Apple News
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5-10 years of demonstrated experience shipping scalable, maintainable, and testable backend systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline (or equivalent relevant experience).
About the job
Build and lead scalable backend services and event-driven data pipelines that ingest, process, and serve content for Apple News and related apps.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and enhance high-scale backend services and data pipelines; lead projects from design through launch.
- Develop event-driven architectures and messaging pipelines for real-time data flows, and guide technical decisions on data stores, search, and service design.
- Collaborate across teams and use CI/CD and version control tools to support code quality and reliable deployments.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline (or equivalent relevant experience).
- Strong background in Java and Spring for backend service development.
- Demonstrated ability to build high-scale distributed backend services with event-driven architectures and pipelines; experience with production data stores, data modeling, and schema design.
- Effective use of AI-assisted development tools, plus strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Technical leadership experience, including setting architecture and direction, mentoring, and improving engineering quality.
- Experience with Apache Cassandra, Apache Solr, Jenkins, Gradle, or Bazel.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Spring, Kafka, Apache Cassandra, Apache Solr, Jenkins, Gradle, Bazel
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools to speed up design, coding, and testing while maintaining high quality.
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