Early Careers Full Stack Engineer, Employee Experience Engineering

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.

Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple — from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios.

Within this team is Employee Engagement & Engineering (EEE), 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 an Early Careers Full Stack Software Engineer on the EEE team, you will help build and maintain web applications powered by Python and PHP backends, with frontends ranging from React and Vue to server-rendered templates and plain JavaScript. Much of the Python work involves internal Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect Apple's tools and data to AI systems.

You will work across the stack — building user-facing interfaces, developing APIs and service-layer logic, and working with the data stores behind them — gaining broad experience in how modern web platforms are built and operated.

Partnering with senior engineers, you will take ownership of well-scoped tasks that span frontend and backend. You'll handle day-to-day work with growing independence while relying on their guidance to navigate new or more complex problems.

As you go, you'll begin to connect your work to broader team and business objectives, building strong foundations in full-stack development within a small, globally distributed team where your contributions are visible from day one.

Responsibilities

• Develop features across the stack — building frontend interfaces (React, Vue, or server-rendered templates) and the Python and PHP backend logic behind them
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and service endpoints that power the application layer
• Contribute to internal MCP servers that make Apple's tools and data available to AI systems
• Implement data integration — connecting frontends to APIs and working with caching and persistence patterns
• Write automated tests across the stack (unit, integration, API) and contribute to engineering quality
• Participate in code reviews across both frontend and backend codebases
• Investigate and resolve issues spanning the full stack — from UI behaviour to API and database queries
• Collaborate with designers and senior engineers to understand requirements and deliver features
• Share what you learn with the team and contribute to a culture of quality and reliability
• Document APIs, data models, and integration patterns clearly

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Python and/or PHP for backend web development, including RESTful API design
• Familiarity with frontend development using JavaScript, including a modern framework (React or Vue) or server-rendered templates
• Understanding of relational databases and basic data modelling
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience shipping production web applications
• Familiarity with backend frameworks such as Flask, Fast
• API, Laravel, or Symfony
• Exposure to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM APIs, or other AI tooling and integrations
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS) or containerised deployments
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automated builds
• Understanding of authentication, authorisation, and API security patterns
• At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right.
• You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools.
• By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.
• Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace
• Role Number: 200669107-1418