Senior Backend Engineer

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. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, 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. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.

 

OUR ROLE & MISSION

 

As a Sr. 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.

 

 

OUR TECH STACK

Frontend: React/Redux/Node.js

Backend: Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch

Infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform in infrastructure

 

DAILY ADVENTURES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints

Deliver features/systems to customers to improve customer metrics

Gather product requirements and write eng design docs to satisfy product needs

Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance

Deliver high quality implementations and promote engineering excellence within the team

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

Lead spring planning for your ownership areas and drive execution

Mentor junior engineers with feedback and technical guidance and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

 

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications

Experience developing distributed web applications

Your code is comprehensible, well-structured, highly performant

Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL both OK)

Experience with using and designing RESTful services

Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design