Senior Software Development Engineer - Apple Maps

Senior Software Development Engineer - Apple Maps

We at Apple Maps are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Development Engineer to join our Eval Engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess substantial professional experience in software development and the implementation of large-scale, scalable data solutions. The Eval engineering team collaborates with various groups within Apple Maps to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of Map data evaluation and analysis. Ongoing projects necessitate the design and implementation of novel automated systems that seamlessly integrate with the Maps data production processes, enabling continuous evaluations and the extraction of valuable insights. The successful candidate will closely collaborate with other software engineers, data scientists, evaluation, and SRE teams to deliver business objectives associated with this project, ensuring adherence to budget and time constraints.

Description:

• Develop Spark applications to improve the speed, coverage, and accuracy of Data evaluation tasks replacing ad-hoc or SQL based analysis.
• Design & develop a self-service platform complete with a UI to allow Data Eval and Analysts to drop-in Python and SQL scripts for seamless integration with Map data production and maintenance workflows.
• Collaborate with peer developers to construct a monitoring dashboard for Data Eval and Analysts jobs running against incremental data deployments at multiple stages.
• Contribute to the team’s repo of utilities and APIs so future applications can easily leverage existing solutions, growing the team’s productivity.
• Maintain and promote good software practices and participate in team code reviews, both receiving and giving feedback.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of frequent practical development experience in Python and either Java or Scala.
• 4+ years of experience developing tools and frameworks to improve developer and QA productivity.
• 3+ years of experience developing intuitive web applications using frontend frameworks such as React & Angular, and backend frameworks such as Node.js, Python, or Java.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing large software or data systems.
• 3+ years of recent experience developing Spark applications on big data systems such as Hadoop or Kubernetes.
• Strong experience developing and deploying applications on Cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
• Passion for good software practices and building extensible and reusable software modules.
• Experience developing automation to write and read data from relational, no-SQL databases, from cloud storage like Snowflake and external tables such as Iceberg.
• Experience developing rich dashboards to visualize data from multiple sources.
• Experience and comfort working in a shared and collaborative code base.
• Experience leading development initiatives within the team and across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or advanced degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Software Engineering.
• Experience developing full stack systems with frontend, services, and storage.

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