Sr. Full-Stack Engineer, App Store

We are looking for an innovative full-stack engineer, to join our App Store Internal Tools team.

We work on app processing and internal tools to enable producers, editors, designers and business analysts to craft the best possible App Store experience for our customers worldwide.

You'll be working with systems that impact more than a billion users, while still retaining a close contact with our day-to-day tool users. We enjoy the luxury of operating quite freely, with comparatively lower SLAs, while still being able to have a very tangible effect on user facing systems (the App Store app).

We take quality very seriously, and can promise a highly skilled and dedicated team. We value the safety and freedom to be wrong, a healthy work/life balance.

Description

You will participate in building both frontend and backend systems for our tools. It's crucial to understand the bigger picture, and how the whole distributed app works. This means keeping track of many technical systems, but also getting to know many people. The work will include planning, presenting and executing on accomplishing various aspects of app and app related data processing.

Amongst other things you'll deal with intelligent recommendations, working at scale, backwards compatibility and schema evolution. You don't shy away from driving a project and possess excellent communication skills. We primarily work in Java and Typescript/React (web), but also have services in Scala.

Does this sound like you? Join us!","responsibilities":"End-to-End System Ownership: Design, develop, and maintain robust frontend architectures using TypeScript/React and scalable backend services in Java and Scala, ensuring seamless integration across the entire distributed stack.

Architectural Strategy & Planning: Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from initial technical planning and schema design to the execution of complex data processing systems.

AI & Machine Learning Implementation: Prototype and build intelligent features and services, integrating machine learning models into production-ready applications to deliver advanced functionality and data-driven insights.

Intelligent Systems Development: Build and optimize high-scale features, including intelligent recommendation engines, while managing the complexities of large-scale distributed data.

System Evolution & Stability: Execute technical migrations with a focus on backwards compatibility and schema evolution to ensure zero-downtime deployments and long-term system health.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive projects from conception to completion by collaborating with diverse stakeholders, translating high-level business goals into actionable technical requirements.

Technical Communication: Present architectural decisions and project progress to both technical and non-technical audiences, utilizing excellent communication skills to align teams on the "bigger picture"

Distributed Systems Management: Maintain a deep understanding of how various interconnected services interact, ensuring the reliability and performance of the application within a complex technical ecosystem.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience from building and deploying server components and services is beneficial

Experience from building message based distributed systems (e.g. with Kafka, Pulsar or similar) is beneficial

Experience with SOLR is beneficial

Experience with Cassandra is beneficial