Senior Backend Engineer - Infrastructure

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Apollo.io, you will play a critical role in the company's growth by implementing best practices in technology, architecture, and process. Working in a cross-functional team, you will collaborate with design, front-end, and analytics teams to solve complex problems and make a significant impact. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing scalable backend endpoints, gathering product requirements, mentoring others, and effectively communicating development progress. With a focus on quality and innovation, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the continuous improvement of the company's tech stack and infrastructure.

• 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

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience developing distributed web applications

• Remote-first inclusive organization
• Clear expectations and environment for doing your best work
• Ample reward for your work
• Opportunities for growth and career acceleration
• Open and collaborative work environment
• Hands-on mentorship
• Cross-functional teamwork
• Opportunities to make an impact
• Focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Tech stack includes React/Redux/NodeJS, Ruby/Ruby on Rails/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch, Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform
• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
• Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development
• Mentorship and knowledge sharing
• Effective communication of development progress
• Introduction of new technologies and ideas
• Work as part of a large global team
• Attend scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
• Provide and respond to feedback
• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development
• Experience with Kubernetes and distributed web applications
• Comprehensible, well-structured, and highly performant code
• Experience with database modeling and RESTful services
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
• Must have communication skills, problem-solving, proactivity, teamwork, listening skills, creativity and innovation, organization and planning, dealing with ambiguity, ownership of projects from start to finish, distributed web development
• Nice to have a degree in Computer Science or similar, experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Mongo, Redis, Ruby on Rails, Microservices
• Great compensation package
• Culture of openness and excellence
• Investment in remote employees' careers
• Focus on helping customers maximize revenue potential
• Collaborative and supportive team environment
• Encouragement to experiment and take educated risks