Staff Backend Engineer

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

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. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, 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.