Software Engineer - Content Management Systems
Apple· Marcom Interactive Engineering
Bengalurufull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience to design, develop, and enhance modern, distributed, scalable, and high-performance Content Management Systems (CMS) using Java, open-source technologies, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Focused on CMS engineering to power Apple’s digital experiences, including apple.com, with headless architectures and integrations across channels.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, customize, and extend the distributed, large-scale CMS platforms that power apple.com and other Apple digital experiences, supporting high volumes of content.
- Build and enhance capabilities across the content lifecycle, including content creation, modeling, relationships, metadata, taxonomy, workflows, approvals, versioning, localization, publishing, and delivery.
- Work hands-on with Java-based open-source CMS platforms and frameworks and extend their capabilities to meet evolving product and business requirements.
- Design and develop headless and API-first CMS solutions enabling content delivery across web, mobile, and other digital channels.
- Develop and integrate REST and GraphQL APIs for content authoring, management, preview, search, and delivery using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build integrations between CMS platforms and search, digital asset management, identity, analytics, CDN, and other enterprise systems.
- Design solutions for scalability, high availability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and efficient content delivery in distributed environments.
- Implement caching, indexing, asynchronous processing, and event-driven mechanisms for large-scale CMS workloads.
- Work with databases and data models supporting large content repositories and efficient content retrieval.
- Develop and maintain supporting backend services and microservices in Java, using Spring Boot and related frameworks, based on the CMS architecture.
- Deploy and operate CMS services using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
- Troubleshoot and resolve CMS, performance, scalability, integration, and production issues, including JVM-level performance and memory tuning.
- Develop unit, integration, and API tests using JUnit and related Java testing frameworks, and contribute to CI/CD and engineering automation.
- Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of the CMS platform.
- Leverage AI coding assistants and AI agents to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and engineering workflows.
- Explore and build AI-powered capabilities and agentic workflows for CMS use cases, where appropriate.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, frontend engineers, DevOps teams, and content stakeholders.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, highly available backend and web applications in Java.
- Hands-on experience with Java (Java 11 or later) and the Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem, including dependency injection, Spring MVC, and Spring Data.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience, with a focus on fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful and/or GraphQL web services in Java.
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling for content-heavy applications.
- Experience with Java build and CI/CD tooling such as Maven or Gradle, Git, and Jenkins.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests with JUnit, Mockito, or similar frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Java-based CMS or content platforms and their extension APIs.
- Experience with DAM or PIM solutions and integrations supporting content-as-a-service at scale.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms for deploying JVM services.
- Experience with caching and search technologies such as Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, or Solr.
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React / Vue / Angular) for CMS authoring interfaces.
- Hands-on experience using AI/ML tools and AI coding assistants to accelerate development, testing, and operational excellence.
Skills
Required:JavaSpring BootREST and GraphQL APIsSQL/NoSQLCI/CD tooling (Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins)Unit/Integration Testing (JUnit, Mockito)Docker/Kubernetes
Nice to have:Caching/Search (Redis, Elasticsearch, Solr)Kafka or similarAI/ML tools for development
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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