Sr Software Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity

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.

Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple — from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios. Within this team is Employee Engagement & Engineering, a small, global team that quickly delivers with long-term vision, building durable, reliable systems meant to last. Our focus is on crafting high-quality, user-centered experiences — delivering AI and system interoperability to make every interaction intuitive, seamless, and genuinely useful for the people who rely on our tools.

Description

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to build tools that support Apple's people around the world. Using web and native technologies — HTML5, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Swift, Symfony, and Drupal — we create applications that let Apple's employees focus on their roles and feel supported in their daily work.

This role is back-end weighted: you'll spend most of your time designing and shipping secure, scalable Drupal and Symfony applications. You'll also build the user-friendly, accessible front-end interfaces that put those systems in people's hands. This is a senior lead role for someone who can run projects autonomously — scoping work with business partners, managing priorities and customer feedback, and driving delivery end to end — without day-to-day direction. You'll bring strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, and a collaborative mindset to a team that owns its work end to end.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure Drupal and Symfony applications used by Apple employees worldwide
• Own applications end to end — from concept and architecture through deployment and day-to-day operations
• Run projects autonomously: partner directly with business groups to translate requirements into scalable enterprise software, manage priorities, and incorporate customer feedback throughout delivery
• Apply secure coding practices, including input validation and access control, across the stack
• Build user-friendly, accessible front-end interfaces that meet modern accessibility standards
• Build systems that scale across multiple regions and languages and handle peak load for a global user base
• Optimize application and database performance, including debugging and tuning SQL queries
• Integrate applications with authentication and third-party services, and incorporate AI tooling into the development lifecycle
• Contribute to a culture of quality and reliability through code review, sound engineering standards, and continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with Symfony and Drupal, including complex custom module development, object-oriented PHP, design patterns, and dependency management with Composer
• Proven ability to own production applications end to end — from concept and architecture through deployment and day-to-day operations — and to drive projects autonomously with business partners
• Experience applying secure coding practices across the stack, including input validation and access control
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful web services and APIs (e.g., JSON:API, REST)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Developing custom Drush commands and background/queue processes, with a focus on performance tuning
• Strong SQL skills, including optimizing and debugging queries to improve performance
• Writing automated tests (e.g., PHPUnit, Kernel/functional tests)
• Integrating applications and authentication using OAuth, SAML, and single sign-on
• Integrating AI tools into the application development lifecycle
• Search integration (e.g., Apache Solr, Elasticsearch)
• NoSQL data stores (e.g., Redis)
• Building and maintaining Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes across a variety of data sources
• Designing systems that scale across multiple locations and languages and handle peak load for a global user base
• Load testing and advanced troubleshooting of production applications
• CI/CD pipelines, container-based systems for deployment and local development, and managing configuration/deployments across multi-environment architectures
• Distributed version control with Git
• Building user-friendly, accessible front-end interfaces (Twig, JavaScript, CSS) that meet accessibility standards
• React or Swift application development
• Leading engineering projects and driving delivery, including Agile facilitation, code review, and mentoring peers