Finance Software Engineer

A Finance Software Engineer is a technical expert and software engineer responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of full-stack web applications and automation solutions that bring efficiencies and scalability across Apple’s global Finance organization. They work directly with business partners to analyze requirements, develop a deep understanding of the underlying business process & recommend optimizations if possible, design solutions and ultimately develop bespoke applications that help the business execute effectively and efficiently.

They work as individuals or as a small development team to deliver and support these applications across Finance. This role requires a unique blend of Business Process, Project Management, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Data Engineering and Dev Ops skills to be successful. A Finance Software Engineer follows the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and best practices to build high-quality software that meets our stringent coding standards, Controls (SOX), Security (Info Sec) and Privacy (PII, PCI, etc) requirements.

• Work closely with business partners, analysts, and other Engineers to conceptualize, create, develop, document, test, and upgrade web applications and their components
• Write efficient code and develop full-stack applications based on requirements
• Test and deploy programs and applications following our SDLC
• Triage, debug, maintain and improve existing applications
• Create technical documentation for application support and future application development
• Enhance existing applications based on business requirements
• Implement and maintain application compliance with Info Sec, Privacy and SOX guidelines
• Collaborate with other Engineers to define and adopt best practices in application and software development
• Partner with Dev Ops to identify and review capabilities of emerging technologies and to enable the adoption of these new technologies and associated techniques

• Undergraduate or Masters degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative discipline required
• 5+ years relevant software engineering experience
• Solid technical foundation and experience with designing, developing, testing, deploying and supporting applications and automation solutions, preferably in a highly agile environment
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and Software Quality Control in an Agile environment
• Demonstrated proficiency with:
  Web development with LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP and alternatives)
• Knowledge of JavaScript libraries (React, VueJS)
• Object-oriented programming languages (Python)
• SQL and the ability to analyze and operate on very large data sets, APIs and Microservices (GraphQL, REST)
• Relational Databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc)
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Code management on Git

• Ability to learn quickly, attentive listener and excellent communicator
• Capability to 'shift gears' quickly and balance multiple priorities
• Willingness to support current infrastructure and toolset
• Confident and mature individual able to work in under pressure
• Education or experience working with finance/accounting data, especially with SAP
• Experience with the following a plus:
  Cloud/orchestration architectures such as AWS, Kubernetes, Dev Ops tools like Ansible, Docker, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, RIO, etc, Container technologies like Docker, Developing HTML5 and responsive applications