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Principal Software Engineer - Marketing Technology

Apple· Central Marketing's Marketing Enablement team
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Experienced Principal Software Engineer to join Apple’s Central Marketing's Marketing Enablement team in London. Drive technical architecture vision for marketing products, own cross-product architectural view, define target architecture and roadmap, establish architecture standards, prototype to de-risk decisions, contribute production-quality code, and lead architecture discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction of our marketing products, including the architectural view across them: integration points, data flows, identity and access boundaries, shared services, and areas of architectural drift.
  • Design and build new marketing technology products and major features, such as campaign management, ad trafficking, and creative asset workflows. Lead architecture and design reviews to a clear decision, working with product and engineering teams to drive alignment.
  • Drive technical excellence and contribute to growing engineering talent by setting design and engineering standards, building reference implementations and shared components and mentoring engineers
  • Ensure our engineering foundations can support future growth by assessing them over time, identifying opportunities to improve and working with product and engineering leadership to drive the implementation.

Qualifications

  • Extensive hands-on full stack software engineering experience, with a demonstrable track record of designing and building applications end to end, including several years in a principal engineer, architect, or equivalent senior technical role
  • Experience in advertising or marketing technology domains, including ad trafficking, campaign management, and creative asset management
  • Deep expertise in full stack web application development, with genuine fluency in Python or Java and the ability to reason about and review the other. Hands-on experience with modern web frameworks (React, FastAPI, Flask, Django, Spring Boot, Hibernate), relational data modelling (Postgres or equivalent), and the design of APIs, service integrations, and event-driven interfaces.
  • Practical experience with externally-facing systems, including authentication and authorisation, content delivery, rate limiting, auditability, and the associated security posture
  • Track record of leading architecture conversations to a decision, including with stakeholders holding competing priorities and limited technical background
  • Experience in advertising or marketing technology domains, including ad trafficking, campaign management, and creative asset management
  • Experience introducing an architecture practice — ADRs, review forums, published standards — into an organisation, and driving genuine adoption
  • Experience with platform and developer experience work that measurably reduced time to first release for other teams

Skills

Required:Full stack web developmentPython or JavaWeb frameworksAPIs designSecurity postureArchitecture leadershipAd tech domain knowledge
Nice to have:ADR practice

Benefits

  • Not specified in the provided description
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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