Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Software and Services
Summary
Posted: Jun 24, 2025
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200607137
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Description
APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Develop and design core services and integrations for the Ad Platforms sales organization. Participate in application design, development, testing, configuration and deployment. Analyze business requirements of the sales organization by reviewing documents, and conducting stakeholder interviews. Write documents and drawing diagrams using software drawing tools such as Quip or Microsoft Office products, Omnigraffle, spreadsheeting and presentation software products. Contribute to software and system design, which involves iteratively producing design documents, which specify the structure of system and software components, by defining their scope, boundaries and interfaces, including a definition of the functional and non-functional requirements that must be met. Produce software and system design specifications using software engineering diagrams such as UML to enable communication about a technical architecture, plan, method or process by which the software system will be built. These designs can then be reviewed by all interested stakeholders to ensure the function, availability, security, scalability, etc. of the final system will meet business goals. Use the designs in reviews, with stakeholders to validate the quality of the design, and with software engineering teams to execute the design, to build the actual software about which the design relates. Develop and test software components using technologies such Java and Junit, and Salesforce Apex class tests. Develop/configure automated jobs such as data transfer or deployment pipelines. Perform integration with Salesforce platforms, including development of pages, web components, triggers, and automated jobs. Design, develop and support systems that include components such as databases (relational and no-SQL), web services, streams and web applications. Write documents for testing & training purposes to ensure business continuity. Engineers must document their work to transfer knowledge to other staff and achieve good maintainability. The types of documents written include requirements docs, database designs, software designs, architecture docs, how-tos, user guides, impact analysis, root cause analysis, developer guides, and onboarding guides. Development involves hands on programming with Java, Dropwizard, JUnit, Salesforce technologies, web services, REST, XML, Oracle, Snowflake, Kafka, AVRO, Spark, Airflow, JavaScript, CSS, and AWS technologies for compute and storage, messaging, and data storage. Programming is used to develop, test, and deploy software products such as: web pages and applications as required for Apple’s Ad Platform business, which may be based on the Salesforce SAAS platform or completely custom designed and developed; web services; databases; data integration (using Airflow, RESTful web services, Kafka, etc.); and build & release processes. Mentor junior team members around code style, requirements, and delivery. Interact with Ad Platform Senior Management for prioritization, scoping and planning exercises. Provide technical assistance and end user troubleshooting support for bug fixes, enhancements, and “how-to” assistance. 40 hours/week.
Minimum Qualifications
Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:
Delivering new technologies and platforms in a services-oriented architecture using Java, Dropwizard, JUnit, web services, REST, XML, Oracle, Kafka, AVRO, Spark, Airflow, JavaScript, CSS, and AWS technologies for compute and storage, messaging, and data storage.
Service integration patterns via REST and SOAP based Webservices. Java-based web services using RESTful interface interfaces to implement data integrations. Message and event based integration patterns for cross system communication of data changes.
Java, relational databases, and data modelling to understand databases, including data modelling, and interacting with data from those databases for services and application development.
Cloud based software including AWS products (EC2, S3), Kubernetes, Docker.
Complex business systems integration: develop integrations between different tools, databases, and systems.
Agile development methodologies with a focus on continuous delivery, limiting work in progress, managing flow and continuous improvement, and Backlog prioritization, frequent reviews, demos, daily stand-up meetings, and test driven development.
Software design and development using programming languages such as Java, Javascript, SQL, HTML.
Software quality testing using JUnit to test the function of software that is written.
Preferred Qualifications
- N/A
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