Apollo.io

Senior Backend Engineer II

Apollo.io
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2 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement highly scalable and highly available backend services with monitoring and alerting.
  • Ramp quickly into unfamiliar codebases, assess blast radius, de-risk changes, and ship confidently.
  • Use AI throughout the development workflow while verifying its output and maintaining ownership of code quality.
  • Own the full software lifecycle from product requirements, architecture, and development through quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance.
  • Scope ambiguous problems, write design documents, and translate product intent into technical decisions.
  • Partner with product managers and stakeholders to challenge specifications and communicate technical realities.
  • Mentor teammates, share knowledge, and promote engineering best practices.
  • Introduce appropriate technologies and ideas, investigate performance improvements, and improve automation and quality.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of industry experience in backend development, including 3–4 years in senior positions.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
  • Fluency with AI tools in real development work and the judgment to verify and pressure-test their output.
  • Experience developing distributed web applications and designing scalable, highly available systems.
  • Ability to write comprehensible, well-structured, and performant code.
  • Experience with SQL or NoSQL database modeling.
  • Experience using and designing RESTful services.
  • Strong curiosity, communication, problem-solving, product judgment, organization, planning, and ability to work with ambiguity.
  • Preferred: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
  • Preferred: experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Mongo, Redis, Ruby on Rails, microservices, or machine learning.

Benefits

  • Hands-on mentorship, professional growth opportunities, resources, support, and autonomy.
  • Collaborative cross-functional environment with support from teams across the company.
  • Opportunity to experiment with bold ideas, take smart risks, and make a meaningful impact.
  • AI-native culture focused on continuous improvement, ownership, and automation.

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About Apollo.io

501-1,000 employees

Apollo.io builds a go-to-market platform that pairs a large B2B contact database with sales engagement, enrichment, and sequencing tools for revenue teams. Offered as a SaaS subscription, it serves sales and marketing organizations that need prospect data and outbound automation; the company is privately held, founded in 2015, headquartered in San Francisco, and raised a Series D funding round in 2023.

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