Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Apollo.io as a Senior Backend Engineer and become a critical part of a growing company, implementing best practices in technology, architecture, and process. Work in an open and collaborative environment, providing and receiving mentorship, and having opportunities for career growth. You will interface with design, front-end, and analytics teams, solving complex problems and striving for high-quality, automated solutions. The role involves designing and implementing scalable backend endpoints, gathering product requirements, and leading the full software development lifecycle. You will mentor others, communicate development progress, introduce new technologies, and work effectively within a large global team.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 3-4 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
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving
• Proactivity
• Team Player
• Listening Skills
• Creativity and Innovation
• Organization and Planning
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish
• Distributed Web Development

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

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Mongo
• Redis
• Ruby on Rails
• Microservices
• Machine Learning