Senior Backend Engineer (L5-L6) - 100% remote

Apollo.io is an AI-native company focused on driving productivity for customers through AI and automation. The company operates fully remote with no offices and emphasizes continuous improvement, collaboration, and career development for remote employees.

• 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
• Proficient in any of the following programming languages: Ruby, Java, Python, Scala, Go, Elixir, C++
• Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL)
• Experience designing and using RESTful services
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools for code generation, debugging, and productivity optimization
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Communication skills, problem solving, proactivity, teamwork, listening skills, creativity, innovation, organization, planning, and ownership

Optional:

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

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
• Gather product requirements and write design documents to satisfy product needs
• Drive and lead full lifecycle of software development including product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge
• Communicate development progress to product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders
• Introduce new technologies and ideas as required
• Work effectively as part of a large global team
• Attend and engage in scrum ceremonies, team events, and manager 1:1s
• Provide and respond to technical and behavioral feedback
• Proactively identify areas of improvement and drive best practices for high quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develop highly available and scalable services with proper monitoring and alerting
• Share knowledge and best practices to up-level the engineering team
• Deal with ambiguity and own projects from start to finish
• Organize and plan large projects by breaking them into smaller tasks
• Listen to others and seek to understand their viewpoints
• Apply creativity and innovation in problem solving
• Work in an agile, startup environment
• Confidently own role and bring creative ideas to users