Software Engineer - Global Sourcing & Supply Management (GSSM) Solutions

Summary

Posted: 17 Feb 2025

Role Number:200591778

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new 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. At Apple, innovative ideas quickly transform into powerful applications that drive efficiency and unlock insights for our business. By joining our Solutions team, you'll work on AI/ML-powered tools and data-driven solutions that directly support the GSSM organization, helping them streamline operations and enhance decision-making. Our team focuses on creating custom applications that tackle complex challenges, optimize workflows, and enable smarter business decisions. We build machine learning models to extract actionable insights, automate processes, and improve predictions using deep learning techniques, all aimed at making our team more efficient and effective. We’re looking for a passionate Software Engineer. In this fast-paced environment, you'll collaborate closely with business teams to design and implement solutions that drive business outcomes.

Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to design and architect a flagship internal software application. This application is key to enabling in-app experiences for creating unique, customized content and deliver real-time visualizations and insights about the Apple supply chain that delivers products our customers love. The right candidate will collaborate with users, management, and technical peers (across the company) and develop solutions to solve increasingly complex problems. This is an amazing opportunity for an engineer with several years of development experience who is passionate about highly intuitive user interface design, outstanding user experiences, and wants to directly impact Apple business operations. Key Responsibilities - Develop user-friendly and intuitive web or native (macOS/iOS) client-server applications - Experienced in interfacing with APIs from a variety of sources - Additional ability to write backend endpoints in the application backend to serve client code (Golang preferred) - Ability to implement UI/UX designs into an application - Skilled in writing SQL queries - Experience integrating applications with ML models, a plus - Write clean, modular, robust code to implement features with no supervision - Quickly prototype new ideas to collect user feedback - Solve complex problems in a fast paced, iterative, and multi-release environment - Ensure robust security and access control in software applications - Introduce automation into build processes - Distill fuzzy business needs into software features through in-depth conversation with non-technical users and leadership - Take lead on building strong relationships within Apple, structuring valuable discussions around user experience/challenges, and turning insights into solutions - Possess a strong customer focus and be eager to work with business partners

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with web or iOS/macOS UI design and versed in various Human Interface Guidelines
• Proficient in technologies such as React, Node.js, Go, PHP (Laravel), Python, and SQL
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborative mindset; experience with Git and Github
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (experience with PostgreSQL), RESTful services, UNIX tools, basic scripting
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment solutions
• Excellent problem-solving, communication skills, and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, strong design skills, and a solid foundation in computer science.
• Passion for new and emerging technologies
• Able to communicate technical issues with a non-technical audience
• Familiarity with the Lean Startup software development methodology
• Maniacal attention to detail
• Experience with ML models a plus
• Comfortable working with remote employees or international teams