Senior Full Stack Web Engineer, Retail & Marcom Engineering

Summary

At Apple, we believe in the power of individual imagination working together, a commitment that drives us to create experiences that delight and inspire. Every tool we build and every service we provide is born from the collective dedication to excellence that defines us. Here, you'll do more than join a team. You'll help shape the tools that empower Apple to share meaningful content with customers worldwide.

As part of Retail Engineering, you will help build cutting-edge tools that connect us with our customers, creating experiences that resonate across the world. By embracing diversity in thought and experience, we continually push the boundaries of innovation, allowing us to do the best work of our lives.

Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.

About the role

We are seeking a full stack engineer with a passion for crafting visually stunning web applications that embody the Apple standard for design and usability, and for building the reliable services behind them. This role calls for a talented engineer who is deeply committed to building high-performance, accessible, and innovative solutions that serve our customers around the world.

In this role, you'll turn requirements and wireframes into high-performance web applications using modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript best practices, and build the APIs and services that power them. With a keen eye for pixel-perfect detail, you'll make sure every user interaction is seamless and intuitive.

Our ideal candidate brings demonstrated engineering expertise and a proven record of delivering innovative UI designs, building applications that are visually engaging as well as reliable and scalable. You will also have opportunities to use Generative AI and AI-assisted development to speed up engineering workflows, prototype ideas quickly, and build AI-powered user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end, from requirements and design through APIs, UI, testing, and production support.
• Build and maintain complex web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc., along with TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Design and build backend services, data models, and RESTful or GraphQL APIs in server-side languages such as Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js), etc., backed by SQL and/or NoSQL stores.
• Turn designs into clean, reusable, accessible (WCAG) UI components, and contribute to shared component libraries and design tokens.
• Partner with UX designers, product managers, and engineers to refine requirements and align on solutions.
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and participate in code reviews.
• Optimize performance across the stack, including Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP).
• Ship through CI/CD pipelines and monitor production health, applying security and privacy best practices throughout.
• Use AI-assisted tools where they help speed up development, and review AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability before it ships.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale enterprise or consumer-facing web applications.
• Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3, and experience with a framework such as React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating backend services and RESTful or GraphQL APIs in production using a server-side language such as Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js), etc.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience building responsive, cross-browser, accessible (WCAG) web UIs.
• Proven experience optimizing performance across the stack, using techniques such as code splitting, lazy loading, caching, query optimization, etc.
• Experience writing automated tests with frameworks such as Jest, Playwright, Cypress, etc., and shipping through CI/CD pipelines.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools in day-to-day development.
• Experience with client-side state and data-fetching libraries such as Redux, Zustand, TanStack Query, etc., in complex applications.
• Experience with server-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt, etc.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containers such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience building design systems or component libraries with designers, using tools such as Figma, Storybook, Chromatic, etc.
• Experience with real-time technologies such as WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, streaming APIs, etc.
• Experience with caching, messaging, and observability tools such as Redis, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, etc.
• Experience modernizing large legacy web applications.