Full Stack Engineer, Employee Engagement Engineering
Full-stack engineer on Apple's internal IS&T Employee Engagement team in Cork, building enterprise web apps used by thousands of employees: Python/Java/Rust microservices, React/Vue or server-rendered frontends, and MCP servers powering AI interoperability. You own features end-to-end, from API and data design through deployment and reliability.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cork, Ireland
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proficiency in Python/Java for backend microservice development, with strong API design skills
- Frontend experience with TypeScript and a modern framework (React or Vue) and/or server-rendered templates
- Solid knowledge of database design — relational and non-relational
- Solid knowledge of containerization technologies and Kubernetes
Nice to have
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience building highly scalable services using Rust
- Experience building and operating production web applications at scale
- Experience building MCP servers or other AI tooling and service integration
- Understanding of RAG architectures
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and site reliability practices
- Track record of driving engineering quality improvements across a team
- Experience working within enterprise or internal platform environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across time zones
Full description
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. 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-centred experiences — delivering AI and system interoperability to make every interaction intuitive, seamless, and genuinely useful for the people who rely on our tools.
Description
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor to web applications powered by Python, Java, and Rust backends, with frontends spanning React, Vue, and server-rendered templates, guiding technical direction across the stack. You take ownership of complex, ambiguous problems across the frontend, API, and data layers — including internal Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that power AI and system interoperability — and you drive technical decisions that shape how these pieces work together. You operate with significant autonomy on complex work, applying best practices and critical judgment with minimal guidance. You identify opportunities to improve reliability, developer experience, and user-facing quality, and you extend your impact across related teams and cross-organization initiatives. The team's size means your technical decisions have direct, outsized impact on the applications thousands of Apple employees use every day.
Responsibilities
- Guide the technical direction and implementation of complex features spanning microservices architecture (Python, Java, Rust) and frontend interfaces (React, Vue, or server-rendered templates).
- Design scalable APIs, data models, and service architectures — including internal MCP servers that expose tools and data to AI systems
- Drive features through their full lifecycle: from concept and design through deployment and operational excellence
- Apply and help raise engineering best practices across the full stack — frontend architecture, API design, testing strategies, and performance
- Identify technical risks and dependencies early; develop mitigation strategies and drive resolution
- Mentor and share knowledge with colleagues across both frontend and backend disciplines
- Contribute to cross-organization initiatives, expanding your impact beyond the immediate team