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 worlds 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. Youll 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

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What You’ll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!