Senior Backend Engineer, Apollo.io

• You love both learning and teaching
• 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
• Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and driving best practices to deliver high quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Able to deal with ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
• Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
• Lets others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
• A creative and innovative problem solver & previous experience working in an agile, startup environment
• Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users
• 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
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization
• Candidates should demonstrate fluency in integrating AI-driven solutions into their workflows and a willingness to stay current with emerging AI technologies
• Must have: 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

Desirable

• As a Senior 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
• In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front-end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering
• You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas
• 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