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Staff Backend Engineer

Apollo.io

1-4 years

Remote

1 vacancy

Apollo.io

posted 4mon ago

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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 teams work will align engineering priorities to Apollos business and engineering priorities to realize the meaningful impact
Youll 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 team ive 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 ElasticSearch 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

Bachelors 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.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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