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Senior Software Engineer – Content Management Systems

Apple· Software Engineering / Marcom Interactive Engineering
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Bengaluru, Karnatakafull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, architect, develop, and evolve modern, distributed, scalable, high-performance Content Management Systems (CMS) using Java, open-source technologies, and AI-assisted engineering. Focused on CMS engineering, content architecture, workflows, localization, publishing, APIs, integrations, search, and large-scale content delivery for apple.com and related digital experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and design ownership for major CMS capabilities and initiatives spanning the content lifecycle.
  • Architect, design, develop, customize, and extend distributed, large-scale CMS platforms powering apple.com and other Apple digital experiences.
  • Drive CMS content models, metadata, taxonomy, workflows, approvals, versioning, localization, publishing, and delivery.
  • Lead the design and implementation of headless and API-first CMS architectures enabling content delivery across web, mobile, and other channels.
  • Design and develop REST and GraphQL APIs for content authoring, management, preview, search, and delivery using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Build integrations between CMS platforms and search, DAM, identity, analytics, CDN, and enterprise systems.
  • Define and drive scalable, highly available, resilient, performant content delivery in distributed environments.
  • Design and implement caching, indexing, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines for large-scale CMS workloads.
  • Drive database architecture and data modeling for large content repositories, versioning, and relationships.
  • Architect, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices in Java/Spring Boot.
  • Hands-on work with Java-based CMS platforms, evaluating, extending, and customizing them.
  • Lead architecture discussions, make technology decisions, balance trade-offs for scalability and maintainability.
  • Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, testing strategies, and operational practices.
  • Deploy and operate CMS services using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
  • Troubleshoot complex CMS issues, JVM performance, memory, concurrency tuning.
  • Develop unit, integration, and API tests; contribute to CI/CD and automation.
  • Participate in architecture/design/code reviews; provide technical guidance to engineers.
  • Mentor engineers on Java, CMS architecture, distributed systems, and best practices.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify CMS architecture and workflows via automation and platform engineering.
  • Leverage AI coding assistants and AI agents to improve productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.
  • Explore and lead AI-powered CMS capabilities and agentic workflows for content creation, transformation, localization, governance, search, etc.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, DevOps, and content stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Drive projects from requirements through deployment and production operation.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience designing and developing complex, highly available, and scalable enterprise web applications using Java and the JVM ecosystem.
  • Expertise in Java (Java 11+) and Spring/Spring Boot (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, reactive/async models).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OO design.
  • Experience architecting and delivering distributed Java microservices and RESTful/GraphQL services at scale.
  • Experience designing SQL and NoSQL data models for large content repositories.
  • Expertise in JVM performance tuning, profiling, concurrency, and memory management in production systems.
  • Experience with Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong testing discipline with JUnit, Mockito, and integration/contract testing frameworks.
  • Proven ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, and build consensus across creative/technical/business partners.

Skills

Required:JavaSpring BootAPI design (REST/GraphQL)Distributed systemsCMS platforms & content modeling

Benefits

  • Accessibility commitments as part of the Apple culture and benefits
  • Standard Apple comprehensive benefits for eligible employees
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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