Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

As a Backend Software Engineer at Apollo.io, you will be a critical part of a growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You’ll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship, and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You love both learning and teaching. In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front-end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering. You enjoy working cross functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact. At Apollo, you strive for quality, and are obsessed with improving quality, automation, and squashing any bugs that sneak through. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of industry experience in backend development.
• At least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications.
• Experience developing distributable services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place.
• Previous experience working in an agile, startup environment.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Ownership of projects from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints.
• Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs.
• Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance.
• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge.
• Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders.
• Be comfortable introducing new technologies and new ideas as required.
• Work effectively as part of a large global team.
• Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s.
• Provide feedback to co-workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers.

Tech Stack

• Front-end: React/Redux/NodeJS
• Back-end: Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform

Company Information

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.