Apollo.io Hiring for Senior Backend Engineer at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

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

• 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 weekly stand-ups, team meetings, and manager 1:1s
• Provide feedback to co-workers in written form and respond to technical and behavioural feedback from managers and peers

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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.

• 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.- Let’s 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

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Skills and Relevant Experiences*

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BS or MS degree in Computer Science

• 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 modelling (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

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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: *-

• Complete required onboarding training
• Setup your development environment-Develop a working relationship with your manager and peers
• Share your expectations out of this role and your goals with your manager
• Understand your manager’s expectations of you in your role
• Understand your team’s scope of work-Understand how customers use all parts of the company’s software
• Understand the roles of the members of your team
• Understand your team’s processes (meetings, git workflow, code review, scrum ceremonies, testing, deployment, etc)
• Be vocal in meetings and either ask questions or provide feedback
• Merge your first PR

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Within the first 3 months: *-

• Set your quarterly OKRs. Develop smart, concise, measurable goals.
• Contribute and provide feedback to all major design and architecture proposals
• Be a voice of innovative ideas and best practices-Identify and improve one team process
• Understand how to perform at an exceptional level
• Work on developing one area of improvement
• Complete at least one medium-size task

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Within the first 4-6th months: *

• Achieve your quarterly OKRs
• Identifying and driving process improvements
• Sharing knowledge within the engineering
• Mentoring others and driving best practices
• Managing highly complex technical work
• Monitor the progress of your goals
• Be comfortable navigating all parts of your squad’s codebase
• Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of any size
• Provide input and collaborate on product roadmap and future functionality

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