Staff Backend Engineer

Job Description

Apollo.io is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the direction and implementation of solutions for significantly complex problems. The engineer's work will extend to many parts of a domain and may influence the entire department. The ideal candidate will improve the overall quality of engineering and support the growth and success of teammates. Apollo.io is an AI-native company built on a culture of continuous improvement. They are on the front lines of driving productivity for their customers—and they expect the same mindset from their team.

• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications.
• Produce high-quality framework that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed & resilient.
• Provide technical leadership and drive best engineering practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and spread expertise.
• Scale distributed applications and make architectural trade-offs.

• Strong background of working with MongoDB at scale.
• Interest in building features with performance, accessibility and scalability in mind.
• Ability to write comprehensive, well-structured, highly performant code.
• Robust understanding of working on message queues & background jobs.
• Monitoring and Metrics gathering (GCP Logs, Prometheus, NewRelic)
• Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance software development processes.

• Impact customer metrics.
• Tech lead projects.
• Strong productivity.
• High quality implementations.
• Communication.
• Scalable and reliable systems.