Job Responsibilty
Senior Backend Engineer
BENGALURU /
ENGINEERING /
FULL-TIME
The Company
Founded in 2015, Apollo.io is a lead intelligence and sales engagement platform trusted by nearly 9,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Our community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy. Our advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help over 500,000 sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects’ data to increase quality conversations and opportunities.
We have notable investors: Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners. We recently completed a Series B financing to fuel our next growth phase. We have reached and maintained profitability for the last 18 months.
Our growth and customer feedback set us apart from competitors. Apollo had over one million sign-ups for its platform in the past year, and the number of weekly active users increased by over 400%. We are a top-ranking G2 Crowd vendor in the Sales Intelligence, Lead Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Sales Engagement categories. Our highest scores are in the B2B data space for accuracy and ROI based on customer reviews.
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WHY APOLLO to “working at Apollo”*
We are a remote-first inclusive organization focused on operational excellence. Our way of working ensures clear expectations and an environment to do your best work with ample reward.
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Your Role & Mission*
As the Senior Backend 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. You love both learning and teaching. In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front-end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering. 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. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.
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Our tech stack *is Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Python/MongoDB/Elasticsearch on the backend,
React/Redux/NodeJS on the front end, and Kubernetes/Docker/Ansible/Terraform in infrastructure.
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Daily Adventures/Responsibilities*
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Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
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Competencies*
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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.
– Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver.- Let’s others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints.
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Skills and Relevant Experiences*
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BS or MS degree in Computer Science
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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
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Nice to have: * GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Mongo, Redis, Ruby on Rails, Microservices
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Key Outcomes*
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Within the first 1 month: *-
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Within the first 3 months: *-
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Within the first 4-6th months: *
What You’ll Love about Apollo:
As we are scaling our company, we are committed to providing the best possible environment for our engineering team. The less time our engineers spend dealing with cumbersome processes, inefficient systems, and commuting, the more time they have to solve problems and make an impact. We’re a technology-first team dedicated to building the greatest engagement software available. We keep in touch with Slack and regular video conferences. You can work from home, a coffee shop or the beach as long as your work is aligned with your goals.
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If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc._
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Multiple Locations