Java Engineer, Radar Engineering

• Do you want to have a significant impact on how work is done at Apple? Radar is used by
• every major organization across Apple to help teams organize and track their work. As
• Apple’s primary tool for defining, tracking, and testing issues, Radar has been used for
• decades across various teams, including hardware and software engineering. It serves as a
• unified platform for bug tracking, test case management, and product management, facilitat-
• ing seamless coordination among team members. The Radar Engineering team at Apple
• seeks an early-career Software Engineer to help build and scale the services behind Radar.
• As a Java Engineer on the Radar Platform team, you will help build and run the services
• behind Radar, Apple’s platform for product development, bug tracking, and work manage-
• ment. Radar is a high-traffic, business-critical system used by teams across all of Apple, and
• the work you do here will be felt by engineers company-wide from your first release.
• You will join a growing team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. In our highly
• collaborative environment, you will work closely with a team of passionate builders to deliver
• end-to-end features critical to Apple’s engineering workflows. You will receive structured
• mentorship, comprehensive training in Apple’s development practices, and the support to
• learn and develop your skills quickly.
• You will write, test, and ship Java code across a complex microservices ecosystem built on
• Spring, Solr, and Oracle. You will build new features, fix bugs, and learn how a platform at this
• scale remains stable while constantly evolving. As you ramp up, you will take on increasing
• ownership of features and services, contribute to design discussions, and help bring new
• technologies onto the platform.
• Design, build, and test features and bug fixes for Radar’s backend services in Java.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Work with senior engineers to break down features into well-scoped tasks and deliver them
• on schedule.
• Investigate and resolve production issues alongside the team and our Ops partners.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and documentation.

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• Follow and help improve the team’s engineering best practices.
• Solid programming skills in Java or similar language, with a good grasp of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience building REST APIs or backend services, for example with Spring.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with Redis, Solr, Kafka, and Oracle.
• Exposure to microservices, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as JUnit.
• Interest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI-assisted development
• tools.
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.