Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Foundation Wallet, Payments & Commerce

At Apple great ideas become products that touch the lives of billions. Wallet Payments u0026 Commerce is at the center of that work powering experiences like Apple Pay Apple Cash and Tap to Pay that are redefining how the world pays and interacts with financial services. If you are a seasoned engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of deep technical complexity and people development this is your opportunity to do the most impactful work of your Foundation organization within Wallet Payments u0026 Commerce (WPC) builds the developer platform and server-side capabilities that power all WPC products and services. We are looking for an experienced high-impact Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineering managers and software engineers with full end-to-end production ownership across a portfolio of core capabilities.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Foundation organization you will manage a team of engineering managers and software engineers responsible for the technical direction architecture delivery and ongoing operation of critical services supporting foundational domain capabilities used across all WPC role demands both technical depth and leadership maturity. You will partner with your managers and senior engineers on system design and technical strategy ensuring your services meet the high bar for scale reliability and security expected of Apples financial and commerce systems. You will maintain active technical credibility across your teams systems evaluating architectural trade-offs participating in design reviews identifying technical risks and guiding delivery from concept to a people leader you will mentor and grow the engineering managers and software engineers on your team support their career development and foster a culture grounded in accountability collaboration and delivery excellence.

Team Leadership u0026 Manager Development: Lead and develop a team of engineering managers and software engineers. Coach your managers on effective people leadership career development and hiring while creating opportunities for engineers to expand their scope and u0026 Roadmap Ownership: Own end-to-end delivery from scoping through production rollout. Make sound decisions in ambiguous situations communicate rationale transparently and keep cross-functional partners proactively Strategy u0026 Architecture: Guide the technical direction and architecture for services supporting your portfolio of capabilities. Partner with senior engineers on architecture decisions evaluate complex trade-offs and ensure designs deliver durable outcomes at Credibility u0026 Design Governance: Maintain deep technical engagement across your teams codebase and architectures facilitating rigorous design reviews identifying technical risks and upholding high standards for code quality and -Functional Partnership u0026 Influence: Build trusted relationships and drive alignment across Product Compliance Privacy Program Management and peer Engineering teams across WPC and Apple Excellence: Improve and maintain standards for operational health including 24/7 on-call processes incident response capacity planning and long-term system of Quality: Champion a culture of quality psychological safety continuous improvement and shared accountability through retrospectives structured feedback and investment in engineering practices that raise the bar.

15 years of software engineering experience and 8 years of direct engineering management including experience leading engineering managers and developing senior individual production experience with JVM-based languages microservices architectures and high-availability server-side expertise in distributed systems fundamentals including SQL and NoSQL data stores consistency models and multi-region deployment topologies such as active-active and ability to lead technical design and architecture reviews evaluate complex trade-offs identify technical risks and drive operational excellence including on-call culture and incident decision-making and communication skills in ambiguous environments with the ability to deliver structured feedback communicate strategy clearly and build trust with cross-functional partners across organizational degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Domain experience in payments commerce or financial services including familiarity with compliance privacy and security track record of developing talent growing individual contributors into senior roles and coaching engineering managers to scale their with re-platforming modularizing or scaling backend systems and navigating cross-functional alignment across distributed and cross-timezone degree is a plus but not required.