Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Permanent EoR
• Salary: Not specified

Apollo.io is a leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally. The company provides sales and marketing teams with verified contact data and tools to engage and convert prospects into customers. Apollo.io raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be a critical part of our 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

• Experience in backend software development
• Familiarity with React.js/Redux/Node.js (frontend) and Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch (backend) technologies.
• Understanding of scalable architecture and design principles.
• Ability to mentor others and share knowledge effectively.
• Strong communication skills.

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.

Company Information

• Company: Apollo.io
• Industry: SaaS
• Founded: 2015
• Funding: Approximately $250 million
• Valuation: $1.6 billion
• Investors: Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more
• Board Member: JD Sherman (Former President and COO of Hubspot)