Apple's iPhone Operations Systems Architecture Team is looking to optimize the manufacturing process by identifying and implementing innovative ways of collecting data and streamlining new product introduction.
Requirements
- Ability to evaluate and ideally contribute code in Java, JavaScript and TypeScript, with React experience a plus.
- Experience querying SQL databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL; experience with Snowflake a plus.
- Preferred experience with elements of web applications, including web design, application wire-framing, and Agile project management.
- Experience with RESTful practices and streaming/eventing platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ in support of applications and/or data pipelines.
- Proven track record of owning and delivering on projects.
- 7+ years project experience and interest in automating application interactions and building applications or services in manufacturing, supply chain, or large scale operations.
Responsibilities
- Administering key systems to drive necessary business processes, and building, managing, and executing automation projects to eliminate engagements that can be readily automated.
- Supporting and modifying queries against databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake and others as necessary to support changing data and structure in established data pipelines.
- Working alongside a team of application developers, attending and sometimes hosting standup and backlog grooming, demoing and reviewing code submissions before promotion to production.
- Identifying incremental or completely new system needs, seeking appropriate, aligned solutions and proposing and motivating those solutions as projects.
- Formally reporting status and progress to the OSA team, users, and management (occasionally to VP level).
- Collaborating with engineering and robotics specialists, data scientists and analysts, Contract Manufacturers, Logistics Providers, and various partners to execute projects to completion
Other
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 10-15%
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
- We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
- A successful Systems Software Developer is a self-starter, organized and goal-oriented; can turn an open-ended challenge into a clear, explainable plan; uses data to motivate decisions; communicates with ease at all levels; and has a strong drive to understand both the problem and the context when making decisions.
