Java Engineer, Radar Engineering

Do you want to have a significant impact on how work is done at Apple? Radar is used by\\nevery major organization across Apple to help teams organize and track their work. As\\nApple’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, facilitating seamless coordination among team members.

The Radar

Engineering team at Apple seeks an early-career Java 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\\nbehind Radar, Apple’s platform for product development, bug tracking, and work management. 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.\\n\\nYou will join a growing team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. In our highly\\ncollaborative environment, you will work closely with a team of passionate builders to deliver\\nend-to-end features critical to Apple’s engineering workflows.

You will receive structured\\nmentorship, comprehensive training in Apple’s development practices, and the support to\\nlearn and develop your skills quickly.\\n\\nYou will write, test, and ship Java code across a complex microservices ecosystem built on\\nSpring, Solr, and Oracle. You will build new features, fix bugs, and learn how a platform at this\\nscale remains stable while constantly evolving. As you ramp up, you will take on increasing\\nownership of features and services, contribute to design discussions, and help bring new\\ntechnologies onto the platform.

Design, build, and test features and bug fixes for Radar’s backend services in Java.\\nWrite clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and participate in code reviews.\\nWork with senior engineers to break down features into well-scoped tasks and deliver them on schedule.\\nInvestigate and resolve production issues alongside the team and our Ops partners.\\nContribute to technical design discussions and documentation.\\nFollow 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.\\nFamiliarity with relational databases and SQL.\\nExperience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.\\nExperience building REST APIs or backend services, for example with Spring.\\n

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\\nFamiliarity with Redis, Solr, Kafka, and Oracle.\\nExposure to microservices, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.\\nExperience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as JUnit.\\nInterest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI-assisted development tools.\\nAbility to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.\\n