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Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Foundation - Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple· Foundation (Wallet, Payments & Commerce)
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New York City, NY$237.6k - $401.7kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior engineering leader to manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers delivering foundational, scalable, secure server-side services used across Wallet, Payments & Commerce products at Apple. Responsible for technical direction, architecture, delivery, operations, and people development.

Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership & Manager Development: Lead and develop a team of engineering managers and software engineers. Coach your managers on effective people leadership, career development, and hiring, while creating opportunities for engineers to expand their scope and impact.
  • Delivery & Roadmap Ownership: Own end-to-end delivery from scoping through production rollout. Make sound decisions in ambiguous situations, communicate rationale transparently, and keep cross-functional partners proactively informed.
  • Technical Strategy & Architecture: Guide the technical direction and architecture for services supporting your portfolio of capabilities. Partner with senior engineers on architecture decisions, evaluate complex trade-offs, and ensure designs deliver durable outcomes at scale.
  • Technical Credibility & Design Governance: Maintain deep technical engagement across your team's codebase and architectures, facilitating rigorous design reviews, identifying technical risks, and upholding high standards for code quality and maintainability.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence: Build trusted relationships and drive alignment across Product, Compliance, Privacy, Program Management, and peer Engineering teams across WPC and Apple Services.
  • Operational Excellence: Improve and maintain standards for operational health, including 24/7 on-call processes, incident response, capacity planning, and long-term system maintainability.
  • Culture of Quality: Champion a culture of quality, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and shared accountability through retrospectives, structured feedback, and investment in engineering practices that raise the bar.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience and 8+ years of direct engineering management including experience leading engineering managers and developing senior individual contributors.
  • Strong production experience with JVM-based languages, microservices architectures, and high-availability server-side services.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including SQL and NoSQL data stores, consistency models, and multi-region deployment topologies such as active-active and active-passive.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and architecture reviews, evaluate complex trade-offs, identify technical risks, and drive operational excellence including on-call culture and incident management.
  • Strong decision-making and communication skills in ambiguous environments, with the ability to deliver structured feedback, communicate strategy clearly, and build trust with cross-functional partners across organizational boundaries.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Domain experience in payments, commerce, or financial services, including familiarity with compliance, privacy, and security considerations.
  • Demonstrated track record of developing talent, growing individual contributors into senior roles, and coaching engineering managers to scale their leadership.
  • Experience with re-platforming, modularizing, or scaling backend systems, and navigating cross-functional alignment across distributed and cross-timezone teams.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipDistributed systemsJVM-based languages

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, and education reimbursement for career advancement.
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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