Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.
YOUR ROLE AND MISSION:
As a Staff Software Engineer at Apollo, you will take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems. Your work will extend to many parts of a domain and may begin to influence your entire department or domain. Your team's work will align engineering priorities to Apollo's business and engineering priorities to realize the meaningful impact. You'll improve the overall quality of engineering done on your team and consistently take steps to support the growth and the success of your teammates.
DAILY ADVENTURES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
- Produce high-quality framework that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed & resilient, and improve upon developer productivity
- Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and cross-team critical projects
- Mentor junior engineers, grow their capabilities to next level and spread your expertise for a stronger engineer teamive practice of mentorship and sponsorship. Maintaining relationships and developing a positive team culture
- Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying relevant design patterns, write high quality code, and deliver business impact through fast iteration
- Provide objective and helpful quarterly performance feedback for engineers
Outcomes
- Impact customer metrics: Have strong understanding of what the most important customer metrics are and achieve big impact for improvement by working with Product Managers and through multiple agile iterations
- Tech lead projects: Become the recognized subject matter that your team owns, setup team technical roadmap with managers and lead the execution
- Strong productivity: Demonstrate strong productivity for fast iteration to impact core metrics even under challenging code bases
- High quality implementations: deliver high quality implementations and act as an example of engineering excellence within the team
- Communication: Achieve alignment with cross-team stakeholders for squad planning
- Scalable and reliable systems: Architect and develop services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
QUALIFICATIONS:
Must Have
- Strong background of working with MongoDB at scale
- Interest in building features with performance, accessibility and scalability in mind
- Strong product sense with the ability to negotiate the right MVP • 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)
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of relevant work experience in software development.
- Experience in software development using a general-purpose programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby etc).
- Experience of working on 3rd party API integrations, with error handling, rate limiting and monitoring.
What You’ll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2015, Apollo is a leading data intelligence and sales engagement platform trusted by 10,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Its community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy.
Today, Apollo’s advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help 1 million sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects’ data to increase quality conversations and opportunities.
Why Work With Us
Apollo is a product-led growth company focused as much on our customers as we are on our employees. Our culture is centered around two things: our values (ownership, integrity, curiosity, excellence, teamwork and fun), and our goal of helping customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform.
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