Engineering Manager, Apple Card & Savings

The Apple Card u0026 Savings team is building the financial products that put users in control of their money at a scale that demands both technical excellence and thoughtful leadership. We built Apple Card to reinvent how credit cards work and continue to launch groundbreaking features. As an Engineering Manager you will lead a team of talented engineers delivering the backend systems that power Apple Card and Apple Savings helping shape how millions of people experience financial services every day. This is a rare opportunity to drive meaningful impact at the intersection of consumer technology and financial infrastructure.

You will manage a team of engineers building and scaling the distributed systems that underpin Apple Card and Apple Savings spanning Java and Kotlin services infrastructure relational and NoSQL datastores and high-throughput messaging pipelines. Day-to-day you will balance hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional collaboration ensuring the team delivers high-quality software that meets the performance and reliability bar Apples customers expect. You will partner closely with product design and partner engineering teams to define roadmaps resolve ambiguity and grow your engineers.

Lead mentor and grow a team of backend engineers working on Apple Card and Apple Savings features and architectural decisions across distributed systems ensuring solutions meet scale performance and reliability engineering best practices around code quality testing and operational excellence to support high-stakes financial with product managers operations and cross-functional engineering teams to define technical roadmaps and deliver against complex business and regulatory requirements into clear achievable engineering a culture of quality setting high standards for design reviews code reviews and incident response technical strategy team progress and risks clearly to senior leadership and onboard and retain engineering talent to scale the team effectively.

10 years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems experience managing and growing a team of software engineers in a fast-paced expertise in Java or Kotlin with hands-on experience designing services for scale and background in cloud infrastructure distributed systems and API with relational and NoSQL databases and high-throughput messaging systems (e.g. Kafka SQS or equivalent).nDemonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with record of delivering high-quality software on time in ambiguous rapidly evolving communication skills able to convey technical complexity clearly to both engineering teams partners and executive stakeholders.

Familiarity with financial services payments or fintech domains including regulatory and compliance -on experience with performance engineering capacity planning and large-scale system reliability in modern CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native deployment in defining and tracking engineering health metrics latency throughput error rates and on-call working in organizations with high data-privacy and security building consumer-facing financial or commerce products at scale.