Software Engineer (Front End), Retail and Marcom Engineering
Summary
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.
Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
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.
Description
We are hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to build performant user interfaces for complex problems. You will architect scalable frontend systems, mentor engineers, and drive technical decisions for our customer-facing product experiences on apple.com. This role gives you the chance to work on challenging technical problems, lead initiatives, and grow with a team focused on code quality, collaboration, and continuous learning. If you are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and want to make an impact, we want to hear from you.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be a key technical contributor responsible for building and scaling our work. You will work at the intersection of design, product, and engineering to create intuitive, high-performance interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Build and architect features: Design, implement, and ship production-ready React applications and components for thousands of users. Make technical decisions about component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
- Drive technical excellence: Lead code reviews, establish frontend best practices, and create technical documentation to elevate the entire engineering team's skills and maintain high code quality standards.
- Mentor and collaborate: Guide junior and mid-level engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and technical mentorship. Work closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive product experience.
- Solve complex problems: Address technical challenges including real-time data synchronization, complex state management, performance optimization at scale, and building accessible, responsive interfaces for all devices and browser.
- Shape the frontend roadmap: Contribute to technical planning, participate in architecture discussions, and help define the future of our frontend infrastructure, tooling, and development practice.
- Own outcomes: Take end-to-end ownership of features from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on user feedback and analytics
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years using TypeScript, React, and Next.js in production applications.
- 4 years using JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 or responsive layouts
- 3 years doing web application testing practices or tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress or code coverage instrumentation
- 3 years with JavaScript events, hooks, and state management solutions (Redux, Context API, MobX, Zustand, or similar)
- 3 years of application performance improvement techniques, optimization strategies or caching solutions
- BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent job-related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with modern build tools and module bundlers (e.g. Webpack, Vite)
- Experience architecting or leading frontend migrations and refactors
- Understanding of backend technologies and RESTful and GraphQL API design
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and building inclusive user interfaces
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, or Storybook
- Understanding of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and monitoring tools
- Effective communicator who can work across both technical and creative teams