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Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend)

Apple· Retail Engineering
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HyderabadFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior backend-focused role within Apple IS&T Retail and Marcom Engineering, designing and operating scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures to support Apple’s online and physical stores and associated marketing tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop highly scalable and reliable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices following modern backend engineering practices.
  • Design distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, large data volumes, and demanding latency requirements.
  • Develop and maintain Kafka-based event-driven systems, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, retries, and failure handling.
  • Design and optimize caching solutions using Redis or equivalent technologies to improve application performance and scalability.
  • Participate in production operations, incident management, root-cause analysis, and service reliability improvements.
  • Own features and services throughout the complete SDLC, from technical design through production deployment and support.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps for backend platforms.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience in Java backend development.
  • Experience building production applications using Spring Boot and Spring Framework.
  • Understanding of REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and backend design patterns.
  • Experience with Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Redis or other caching technologies.
  • Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS services, including EC2, EKS, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, ElastiCache, or equivalent services.
  • Experience with Redis/Valkey, cache invalidation strategies, TTL management, distributed caching, and cache failure scenarios.
  • Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, including partitioning, replication, ordering, consumer lag, rebalancing, retries, and exactly-once/at-least-once processing.
  • Experience with MongoDB replication, sharding, indexing, aggregation pipelines, and high-volume workloads.
  • Track record of brainstorming and shipping POCs using AI/ML/GenAI services to solve new or existing enterprise problems, with the ability to manage partner communications and navigate ambiguity in a fast-changing, matrixed environment

Skills

Required:Java (backend)Spring BootSpring FrameworkREST APIsKafkaRedisAWS
Nice to have:MongoDBAI/ML/GenAI PoCs
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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