Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview

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

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Apollo.io, you will be a critical part of a growing company, contributing to the development and implementation of best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You’ll work in an open and collaborative environment, receive mentorship, and have opportunities for career growth. You enjoy learning and teaching, and strive for quality, automation, and bug squashing. You’re driven to investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas, working effectively as part of a large global team.

Requirements

• Experience with backend development.
• Familiarity with the provided tech stack: React/Redux/NodeJS on the front end, Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch on the backend, and Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform in infrastructure.
• Ability to design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints.
• Experience gathering product requirements and writing design documents.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate development progress to stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor others and share knowledge.

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

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.