Software Engineer, Partner Engineering, Apple Pay

Apple

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 24 days ago
At Apple, ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Imagine what you could do here. Apple Pay is an exciting environment and a fast-paced development organization! We are changing the landscape of payments through innovation enabling our customers to pay with their mobile devices in a simple, private and secure way. Apple Pay is the easiest way to pay in stores, within apps, on the web, to send and receive money and get around town. As Apple Pay continues to grow, so does our ecosystem of tightly integrated external partners. Partner Engineering is passionate about improving this external ecosystem. Partner Engineers work at the forefront of Apple Payʼs future with external companies, with whom Apple Pay may partner to bring services to our customers. This will be accomplished by closely working with external partners' engineering teams (e.g. developers, quality, performance, SRE) and an in-depth knowledge of Apple Pay iOS and Server systems. Partner Engineer's also stride with the excellence of developing the Partner Experience with rich technical documentation, sample code and a complete partner reference implementation. This helps partners achieve the excellence required to integrate with Apple Pay services. An Apple Pay Partner Engineer also works across the internal engineering organization to represent the external partners, identifying and addressing gaps and opportunities within Apple. A successful Partner Engineer will build pipeline of capable engineering partnerships that enables Apple Pay to continue a rapid growth in functionality and availability. Join us on this journey and help us leave the world better than we found it!DescriptionWe are looking for engineers, architects with a high level of technical skill and experience crafting, building and running diverse product lines and types of infrastructure at scale. You will be involved in designing API specifications and protocols to tackle novel problems and working closely with internal engineering teams, server and iOS on feature definition and development. You will also work with internal technical document writer to develop rich developer documentation for new Wallet features. You will develop and implement Web Services/REST APIs defined in Apple Pay server & Wallet specifications and work closely with the engineers, architects as well as executives at 3rd party companies that design, build and run their services. In this role you will be the voice of the future 3rd parties, as new products and services are invented and architected inside of Apple Pay and you will cultivate successful engagements to establish a pipeline of well qualified and capable 3rd parties for the rest of the engineering function to integrate, test and launch with, without delay.Minimum Qualifications
  • Prior work experience architecting, implementing or running large scale customer facing services.
  • Experience with programming languages and frameworks like Java, Go, NodeJS, Javascript, Python.
  • Experience authoring and supporting web services/REST APIs.
  • Experience with Relational, NoSQL Databases and developing scalable and distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience/understanding of security and cryptography (not mandatory).
  • Able to establish rapport with people inside and outside the organization.
  • Comfortable engaging across all levels of a company from engineers to executives and sensitive to cultural differences in country/region of a product.
  • Strong analytical capabilities coupled with good business insight, curiosity and able to self direct.

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