Apollo.io is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing company and work on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. The goal is to design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints, gather product requirements, and drive the full lifecycle of software development to deliver high quality, performant, and scalable solutions.
Requirements
- 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
- GCP
- Kubernetes
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
- Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place.
- Experience developing distributed web applications
- Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL both OK)
- Experience with using and designing RESTful services
Other
- Minimum 8 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 3-4 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications
- 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.
- Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team.
- 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.
