Engineering Manager- Finance Engineering

Summary
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build and service we create is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. 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.

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.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the IS&T Finance ACES team.

IS&T Finance ACES is IS&T's dedicated technology partner for Apple's finance functions. We build the systems that power how Apple manages its money, from procurement and payments to accounting, real estate, and financial reporting. We deliver integrated technology solutions that keep these functions running efficiently and securely at global scale. We also work closely with business teams to develop custom tools that improve productivity and bring greater automation and consistency to finance operations across Apple. Finance teams around the world rely on our services every day, so they need to be reliable, secure, and easy to use.

Description
We're looking for a technical leader who builds and scales enterprise-grade distributed systems and leads the engineers who build them. You'll stay hands-on in design and code, own your team's delivery and quality, and grow the people around you. You'll work across product, QA, support and partner teams, including contractors and colleagues in other time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and architecture: Lead the design of large-scale, cloud-native, microservices-based systems. Focus on performance, scalability, robustness and resiliency. Make the trade-offs explicit.
• Hands-on technical work: Write code, contribute to design reviews and code reviews, and assess technical risk. Help debug and resolve hard production issues.
• Delivery and planning: Run your team in Agile. Plan work distribution, manage risk and deliver on commitments, adjusting quickly when business priorities change.
• Roadmap: Work with peers and product owners to build a technical roadmap aligned to the business vision.
• Proofs of concept: Lead POCs and pilots that test new ideas, and turn the successful ones into production systems.
• Reliability and security: Continuously improve the reliability, performance and security of critical finance services.
• People leadership: Lead, hire, develop and grow an engineering team. Mentor engineers, give regular feedback, and build a culture of learning and ownership.
• Stakeholders and partners: Build relationships with global leaders, peers, contractors and partners in a matrix organization. Coordinate across QA, support and end users to deliver successful outcomes.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade systems, including at least 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems,
• 3+ years of experience leading, managing and mentoring engineering teams
• Experience in at least one mainstream backend language.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle
• Experience designing and delivering large systems, with a focus on performance, scalability and resiliency
• Experience with Agile software development, and the judgment to adapt the process to what works for the team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containers and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Redis, MongoDB or Couchbase
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams
• Experience managing and collaborating with contractors or external partners
• Ability to prioritize and make sound trade-off decisions grounded in software engineering and architecture principles
• Excellent communication, leadership and presentation skills, including working effectively with geographically distributed leaders, peers and partners
• Experience building products with AI/ML, including LLMs, prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Experience with finance or enterprise business systems (e.g. procurement, payments, accounting)
• Strong hands-on experience in Java
  
  

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